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MS Dirty Pool Against AOL?
Hobbes_ sent us an amusing little story that talks about some MS Employee forging some email to some guy trying to
raise heat against AOL. Just read the article, its more than just a little bizarre.
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> But I've sometimes wondered who was really /. and
> posting messages promoting MS on
> other places.
Haven't we heard enough about "fake
Microsoft employees potsing pro-Microsoft
messages"? I think people just enjoy using
innovative software from the leader of our
nation's technology industry. Folks around the
world are amazed at the increased productivity
they experience because of Microsoft software,
and just want to share their satisfaction with
the exciting technologies available today.
Here's an example: we all know that Windows98
makes computers easy to use, right? But that
whole "point-and-click" thing doesn't work if
you can't see the screen! That's why the
patriotic innovators at Microsoft are hard at work
developing verbal interfaces, such as a lovable
talking parrot whose sassy, high-pitched voice
guides the eyeball-impaired through their favorite
programs. Who wouldn't feel a sort of
"irrational exhuberance" at these innovations,
and want to share word of them with the world?
Yours,
H. Humbert
Humbert Consulting
It depends on the task. For back-end stuff (servers) or for people that know what they're doing and need power/stability in their workstations, I'll tend to promote non-MS products. For Jane Q. Secretary desktop stuff, I'll promote MS.
Though my network at home is run by a Linux system acting as a NAT/gateway, I spend most of my time sitting in front of a Win98 system (running an X server of course). Though I'm thinking I'll try Be out here eventually...
There's also a second NT head and a Linux/AfterStep box in the same room that I use occasionally.
The best OS all depends on the task at hand... Windows is not the best OS for all tasks any more than Linux is.
I tend to bring this attitude to Slashdot in my posts. Sometimes I'll step up and defend Microsoft because of unfounded/stupid/uneducated anti-MS posts, but just as frequently I'll be backing up posts that are critical of MS oeprating systems. It works the other way around, too.
I rarely see many other "pro-MS" posts on Slashdot, except for the inevitable idiot/troll that's just trying to be funny/annoying.
Of course, I doubt I'd ever come out and say that "MS' OSes were coded well or stable", but coding and stability aren't the only reasons one can prefer one OS over another for a particular task.