Indeed. If the US government ever wises up to how they are being taken for a ride and how Microsoft has them under their thumb, they would quickly retaliate. But considering how the Republicans and Bush are in office, all it will take is a few bribes and it's business as usual.
Since Microsoft is still under government observation for being a Monopoly, it would be a conflict of interest to interefere. Plus, what the US Government is getting is a one sided story and as any good diplomat will know is to get both side.
Politicians may want to get involved but diplomats will not. Watch the days coming to see which politicos are dumping their Microsoft stock and that will give you a good idea of what is to come.
Botnets will experience a large growth rate and virus manufacturers will recieve record growth.
Will it have an impact? I can hear the impact of it hitting the fan as we speak... but it's not the impact that I'm worried about as much as the splatter.
Holy shit! Someone bred with Uncle Fester, the Dancing Monkey Boy??? Where did they find the blind retard to perform the obligatory hump and squat out a couple more Microsoft mongoloids?
I'm amazed they even have opposable thumbs to operate an Ipod!
That would be to imply that there are women being bred in a secret government laboratory to be specifically aroused by Dungeons and Dragons, comic books and your ability to compile the kernel.
I built an MVC framework in under a month and copied over all the procedural code into OOP code.
If you have a GOOD developer, good organization and all the content pregenerated... 1-3 months should be all thats needed (even for an enterprise company).
The exception would be a complete re-org, business redesign as well but again, with good organization and a good framework, it should be very straight forward.
Your probably right. People would read it just so they could scream at him about it. Or they would read it because no one would believe someone was stupid enough to write something like that.
HOWEVER... Forbes would never run it because it would damage their credibility.
Well the fact that he is now trolling the other side says something... it says there are enough people that hate Microsoft to justify a 'flame piece' written just to attract readers.
You actually have to do alot more registry editing than that. I once went through and modified my machine to forward all references to the DLL and IE to firefox instead. Unfortunately I found out that the directory explorer actually IS explorer and that Outlook requires IE as well or it just won't work.
They could have removed IE a long time ago but just decided NOT to.
The TIOBE Index is the number of people TALKING about the language on the web... not the number of people having problems. This includes employers, people in help forums, professionals talking about the best way to do something, articles, and more
Well right off the bat, multiple domain hosting. I can stick a couple hundred parked domains on one Apache server whereas IIS cannot. I hear that it got a little better but still sucks at multiple hosts. Now, knowing that they won't purchase one machine for every domain, and knowing that IIS doesn't handle multiple domain serving well, one can expect downtime and outages and 'blind spots' in serving these sites.
Why should this matter? Because a large amount of these domain parkers are squatters. And they can't sell their domains if they can't stay up.
That coupled with residual distaste from the tech community and web developers will cause a general shakeout. I have never once seen a Microsoft poster child actually generate a squeal of glee from the tech community... have you?
Actually, MySQL overtook Oracle last year as the number one most popular database and is installed on over 55% of ALL servers (not just web servers). Apache still holds rein as the king of web servers with 70% and the most common web server is still Linux with over 60% of the market. PHP is the number one Apache mod and is in the top 4 of programming languages on the Tiobe Index.
Keep in mind that these stats are for web servers... not ALL servers.
So yes... those stats are fairly accurate... though 70% may be high, I would say in the mid to high 60 percentile range is not unreasonable.
Well I have known Microsoft to bend over backwards to give away their product just so that they can have a poster child. I also know that Microsoft is trying to get into web hosting. I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of business arrangement coming down the line.
I expect all their Apache customers will be bailing and going elsewhere... not a smart move when you consider the market share Apache has and how many people applications use the LAMP stack.
My Prediction??Watch their business drop by at least 25%.
An OS is no good without applications on top of it.
Yeah when will Microsoft learn to develop some decent applications for the server? Or were you talking about the most commonly used web platform, the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) used by 70% of websites around the world.
Nah... just hoping that they can change. I know they will eventually have to change their tactics since everyone is now bringing all of their weight against them; countries, corporations, schools, etc.
They will have to change their tactics eventually and this may be the start. Though I am with you in the boat of 'I'll believe it when I see it'.:)
Now try opening a URL from a WORD or EXCEL doc. Or try any launcher program developed by a lazy programmer who doesn't want to check for other browsers(ie. City of Heroes). Gee, it's amazing how easy it is to blow a hole in your theory.
Gee, how long did it take them to figure out what people knew from the beginning? Security and IT professionals have flogged this as a major security risk from day 1.
All I can say is that now that they have done this, I'm beginning to believe that they want to build a decent and secure product for their customers.
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Indeed. If the US government ever wises up to how they are being taken for a ride and how Microsoft has them under their thumb, they would quickly retaliate. But considering how the Republicans and Bush are in office, all it will take is a few bribes and it's business as usual.
Since Microsoft is still under government observation for being a Monopoly, it would be a conflict of interest to interefere. Plus, what the US Government is getting is a one sided story and as any good diplomat will know is to get both side.
Politicians may want to get involved but diplomats will not. Watch the days coming to see which politicos are dumping their Microsoft stock and that will give you a good idea of what is to come.
Botnets will experience a large growth rate and virus manufacturers will recieve record growth.
Will it have an impact? I can hear the impact of it hitting the fan as we speak... but it's not the impact that I'm worried about as much as the splatter.
Holy shit! Someone bred with Uncle Fester, the Dancing Monkey Boy??? Where did they find the blind retard to perform the obligatory hump and squat out a couple more Microsoft mongoloids?
I'm amazed they even have opposable thumbs to operate an Ipod!
That would be to imply that there are women being bred in a secret government laboratory to be specifically aroused by Dungeons and Dragons, comic books and your ability to compile the kernel.
Um... anyone know if this lab is looking for QA?
No but they do have direct access to their brains. Does that count?
This ain't FUD people, this is business as usual.
Actually it's both! It's FUD AND Business as usual... for Microsoft.
Shouldn't pay off politicians, cheat customers and retailers and spread FUD be somewhere in that formula?
I built an MVC framework in under a month and copied over all the procedural code into OOP code.
If you have a GOOD developer, good organization and all the content pregenerated... 1-3 months should be all thats needed (even for an enterprise company).
The exception would be a complete re-org, business redesign as well but again, with good organization and a good framework, it should be very straight forward.
I call SCO! I won't even have to bulk up! But expect alot of shit talking from them pre-match. :)
Your probably right. People would read it just so they could scream at him about it. Or they would read it because no one would believe someone was stupid enough to write something like that.
HOWEVER... Forbes would never run it because it would damage their credibility.
Well the fact that he is now trolling the other side says something... it says there are enough people that hate Microsoft to justify a 'flame piece' written just to attract readers.
Had to. Was my work computer and everyone scheduled via the calendar tool. But eventually, I just used webmail and gimped IE on my system entirely
You actually have to do alot more registry editing than that. I once went through and modified my machine to forward all references to the DLL and IE to firefox instead. Unfortunately I found out that the directory explorer actually IS explorer and that Outlook requires IE as well or it just won't work.
They could have removed IE a long time ago but just decided NOT to.
The TIOBE Index is the number of people TALKING about the language on the web... not the number of people having problems. This includes employers, people in help forums, professionals talking about the best way to do something, articles, and more
No.
Well right off the bat, multiple domain hosting. I can stick a couple hundred parked domains on one Apache server whereas IIS cannot. I hear that it got a little better but still sucks at multiple hosts. Now, knowing that they won't purchase one machine for every domain, and knowing that IIS doesn't handle multiple domain serving well, one can expect downtime and outages and 'blind spots' in serving these sites.
Why should this matter? Because a large amount of these domain parkers are squatters. And they can't sell their domains if they can't stay up.
That coupled with residual distaste from the tech community and web developers will cause a general shakeout. I have never once seen a Microsoft poster child actually generate a squeal of glee from the tech community... have you?
Actually, MySQL overtook Oracle last year as the number one most popular database and is installed on over 55% of ALL servers (not just web servers). Apache still holds rein as the king of web servers with 70% and the most common web server is still Linux with over 60% of the market. PHP is the number one Apache mod and is in the top 4 of programming languages on the Tiobe Index.
Keep in mind that these stats are for web servers... not ALL servers.
So yes... those stats are fairly accurate... though 70% may be high, I would say in the mid to high 60 percentile range is not unreasonable.
Is that a question or a software solution?
Well I have known Microsoft to bend over backwards to give away their product just so that they can have a poster child. I also know that Microsoft is trying to get into web hosting. I wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of business arrangement coming down the line.
I expect all their Apache customers will be bailing and going elsewhere... not a smart move when you consider the market share Apache has and how many people applications use the LAMP stack.
My Prediction??Watch their business drop by at least 25%.
An OS is no good without applications on top of it.
Yeah when will Microsoft learn to develop some decent applications for the server? Or were you talking about the most commonly used web platform, the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) used by 70% of websites around the world.
Yeah... those aren't useful at all are they?
You must be new around here.
:)
Nah... just hoping that they can change. I know they will eventually have to change their tactics since everyone is now bringing all of their weight against them; countries, corporations, schools, etc.
They will have to change their tactics eventually and this may be the start. Though I am with you in the boat of 'I'll believe it when I see it'.
Now try opening a URL from a WORD or EXCEL doc. Or try any launcher program developed by a lazy programmer who doesn't want to check for other browsers(ie. City of Heroes). Gee, it's amazing how easy it is to blow a hole in your theory.
Gee, how long did it take them to figure out what people knew from the beginning? Security and IT professionals have flogged this as a major security risk from day 1.
All I can say is that now that they have done this, I'm beginning to believe that they want to build a decent and secure product for their customers.
Captain Spin: Our operating system is much better than Linux.
Hilf Boy: Yes much better than Linux.
Captain Spin: Linux is ok for loser techies like us but not for the average user.
Hilf Boy: Yes, they are far too stupid.
Captain Spin: These aren't the droids you are looking for.
Hilf Boy: Definitely not our droids.
Same show, different solid gold dancer.