Well you still didn't answer many of my questions.. I'm still in school and am a CS major and have used products from MS, Linux, Unix and apple and each has its own advantages and disadvantages but I still don't get all the MS bashing.. There are many ways that MS has faltered but this incessant MS bashing is kindda getting annoying.. I am just trying to understand the dynamics of the industry so if anyone can constructively give me some examples on the qs I have that will be great...
I cant understand why in the US especially people are trying to crucify microsoft, the whole world uses MS products and also use a bunch or other OS's but the MS bashing is mind boggling here.. if apple had come with an OS for Cray people would have been lining up to praise it without even using it.. ppl talk about MS tax but its not like apple gives its s/w for free and they have proprietary h/w as well.. apple takes away more freedom than MS does.. i wonder if the OSS movement would have even started if there were 10 companies with each having 10% market share and each using its own proprietary software and hardware, i cant imagine what the cost of s/w would have been in such a situation..
all the ppl that praise apple so much for its stability just try to compare the diversity of hardware and software that MS has to support.. the number of software's that are available of MS outnumbers apple by the order of magnitudes.. apple does not have to worry about h/w driver written by some other vendor nor about the millions of games that run on MS OS's or of the thousand of shareware and free s/w available for MS..
im not saying that there's anything wrong with apple's strategy but why are ppl so vindictive about MS??? i still cant understand why there is so much of bad blood for vista either, i have been using it for a year and it has never crashed.. any new OS is bound to have compatibility issues but that is bound to be there u cant expect a magical OS (which ofcourse ppl have come to expect) and the funny thing is that ppl compare it to XP but XP got a lot better after the service packs came out.. I'm sure vista has its short comings but its come to a pt where ppl who have not even used vista have a negative opinion about it..
Microsoft has been an amazing company and has always been under scrutiny (as all big companies should be) but I get the feeling that ppl fail to see the bigger picture and try to make things in the tech industry as some company vs. MS.. any company that is perceived to challenge MS is portrayed as the messiah and MS as the monster that gobbles companies up.. Google currently is doing exactly what MS had done earlier it is buying of all it competitors and to seems to be becoming like big brother of the internet.. no one seems to be complaining about that(which to me is a lot more worrying)!!! no one seemed to have an issue with google's privacy issues until the Europeans bought it up..
In a capitalist society all companies will look out for their bottom line and how they can keep increasing it.. this anti-MS campaign is getting old and ppl will not realize the value of a company like MS until a company in china or korea or japan makes an OS and sells it to the whole world leaving American companies scratching their head wondering why their product is not selling (automotive sector is a prime example)..
to come back to the point i was trying to make, I'm sure there are other OS's that are better in some ways but are MS's products all that bad?? if so why do 92% of computer sold have it?? looking at purely a consumer market do u expect a user to relearn for example to drive a car just because thats made by another company??
MS has come into the super computing field as an underdog at least give a chance to evaluate and compare the OS before passing out judgment.. (in this same position a google OS would have been the wonder product of supercomputing..) if then it is not a good competitor and falls short then by all means, crucify it.
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Well you still didn't answer many of my questions.. I'm still in school and am a CS major and have used products from MS, Linux, Unix and apple and each has its own advantages and disadvantages but I still don't get all the MS bashing.. There are many ways that MS has faltered but this incessant MS bashing is kindda getting annoying.. I am just trying to understand the dynamics of the industry so if anyone can constructively give me some examples on the qs I have that will be great...
I cant understand why in the US especially people are trying to crucify microsoft, the whole world uses MS products and also use a bunch or other OS's but the MS bashing is mind boggling here.. if apple had come with an OS for Cray people would have been lining up to praise it without even using it.. ppl talk about MS tax but its not like apple gives its s/w for free and they have proprietary h/w as well.. apple takes away more freedom than MS does.. i wonder if the OSS movement would have even started if there were 10 companies with each having 10% market share and each using its own proprietary software and hardware, i cant imagine what the cost of s/w would have been in such a situation.. all the ppl that praise apple so much for its stability just try to compare the diversity of hardware and software that MS has to support.. the number of software's that are available of MS outnumbers apple by the order of magnitudes.. apple does not have to worry about h/w driver written by some other vendor nor about the millions of games that run on MS OS's or of the thousand of shareware and free s/w available for MS.. im not saying that there's anything wrong with apple's strategy but why are ppl so vindictive about MS??? i still cant understand why there is so much of bad blood for vista either, i have been using it for a year and it has never crashed.. any new OS is bound to have compatibility issues but that is bound to be there u cant expect a magical OS (which ofcourse ppl have come to expect) and the funny thing is that ppl compare it to XP but XP got a lot better after the service packs came out.. I'm sure vista has its short comings but its come to a pt where ppl who have not even used vista have a negative opinion about it.. Microsoft has been an amazing company and has always been under scrutiny (as all big companies should be) but I get the feeling that ppl fail to see the bigger picture and try to make things in the tech industry as some company vs. MS.. any company that is perceived to challenge MS is portrayed as the messiah and MS as the monster that gobbles companies up.. Google currently is doing exactly what MS had done earlier it is buying of all it competitors and to seems to be becoming like big brother of the internet.. no one seems to be complaining about that(which to me is a lot more worrying)!!! no one seemed to have an issue with google's privacy issues until the Europeans bought it up.. In a capitalist society all companies will look out for their bottom line and how they can keep increasing it.. this anti-MS campaign is getting old and ppl will not realize the value of a company like MS until a company in china or korea or japan makes an OS and sells it to the whole world leaving American companies scratching their head wondering why their product is not selling (automotive sector is a prime example).. to come back to the point i was trying to make, I'm sure there are other OS's that are better in some ways but are MS's products all that bad?? if so why do 92% of computer sold have it?? looking at purely a consumer market do u expect a user to relearn for example to drive a car just because thats made by another company?? MS has come into the super computing field as an underdog at least give a chance to evaluate and compare the OS before passing out judgment.. (in this same position a google OS would have been the wonder product of supercomputing..) if then it is not a good competitor and falls short then by all means, crucify it.