Can someone actually answer me simple question: Why? Does anyone know what MS has done is technically wrong? They came out with their OWN architecture for their OS. Sure it was based on Apple's, but there's no such thing as true creativity, rather an improvement of existing ideas and theories. So what, they came out with some decent technologies and now they're an evil empire? Actually, if you look into it, they're far from it. Their employee treatment supersedes most large corporations. They DO NOT force you to buy their products. You may feel that you're obligated to do so, or even just bootleg them (like even 90% of the people that read and post on this site do anyways). Honestly you have no right to complain. Chances are, you didn't purchase your copy of Windows. What Microsoft has done is capitalize off of the corporate America that we as a nation allow to continue. I say good for them, as, I'm sure, would anyone that's actually trying to do something with our lives in this oddity of a country. Sure there's many downfalls to our society, granted. However, that's not the topic of this post. The point is, they created something, (within legal boundaries of barrowing and/or improving technologies) which they should not be punished for. Good for them. Maybe a few of you can go on to be the next Gates. Who knows? But keep in-mind, Steve Jobs had the monopoly going first. Gates and his associates just took it to a new extreme. Why don't you stop wasting your time worrying about what MS is doing, and maybe, start worrying what you're going to do, in order to succeed in this area of work (that's if you're even pursuing it; over half of you won't). As a developer, I appreciate what MS has created. As to those of you who complain about the bugs... TRY DEVELOPING. Those of you that do, I'm sure you can appreciate those bugs a bit more. If this post hasn't got you thinking a bit different, which it probably won't, just remember, all empires eventually fall due to an over size. May very well be a few decades, at their rate, possibly a few years, they will break on their own. Causing all sorts of legal mischief in licensing their OWN technologies. If you Linux gurus out there still remain unsatisfied with the virtue of patience, all I can say is stfu. Your tech isn't exactly best for a nice profit margin. Plus, once it provides as much flexibility to an array of users such as old man Rivers down the street, to the thirteen year old Asian in a basement somewhere in China (probably cracking the leaks of Longhorn right now), to developers AND servers then we'll talk. Not saying that Linux is a poor choice of web-server, but does it accommodate the rest? No it doesn't, if you just argued that statement. Unix was a great system, don't get me wrong, but it's time to let go, and wake up to a standard so we can ALL communicate effectively. Sorry about dragging on, but have any of you anti-MS reps actually seen the working conditions of MS employees. It is simply incredible. Those of you that appreciate free caffeine as much as I do free cocaine (I wish MS provided that in product packaging. Maybe I'd purchase it too), you should respect it a bit more. In defense to the developers, I'm sure they're not as money hungry (the damn well get paid enough) to release any of their products with any bugs, that may reflect poorly on them. Being a developer, of coursed based on Window's techs, I sure as hell don't like being responsible for assets gone missing when my 30 mile long TSQL proc actually listens to what I accidentally wrote. Nor are they wanting to be responsible for $50k in patch development. Then again, it is job security for all of us, isn't it?
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Can someone actually answer me simple question: Why? Does anyone know what MS has done is technically wrong? They came out with their OWN architecture for their OS. Sure it was based on Apple's, but there's no such thing as true creativity, rather an improvement of existing ideas and theories. So what, they came out with some decent technologies and now they're an evil empire? Actually, if you look into it, they're far from it. Their employee treatment supersedes most large corporations. They DO NOT force you to buy their products. You may feel that you're obligated to do so, or even just bootleg them (like even 90% of the people that read and post on this site do anyways). Honestly you have no right to complain. Chances are, you didn't purchase your copy of Windows. What Microsoft has done is capitalize off of the corporate America that we as a nation allow to continue. I say good for them, as, I'm sure, would anyone that's actually trying to do something with our lives in this oddity of a country. Sure there's many downfalls to our society, granted. However, that's not the topic of this post. The point is, they created something, (within legal boundaries of barrowing and/or improving technologies) which they should not be punished for. Good for them. Maybe a few of you can go on to be the next Gates. Who knows? But keep in-mind, Steve Jobs had the monopoly going first. Gates and his associates just took it to a new extreme. Why don't you stop wasting your time worrying about what MS is doing, and maybe, start worrying what you're going to do, in order to succeed in this area of work (that's if you're even pursuing it; over half of you won't). As a developer, I appreciate what MS has created. As to those of you who complain about the bugs... TRY DEVELOPING. Those of you that do, I'm sure you can appreciate those bugs a bit more. If this post hasn't got you thinking a bit different, which it probably won't, just remember, all empires eventually fall due to an over size. May very well be a few decades, at their rate, possibly a few years, they will break on their own. Causing all sorts of legal mischief in licensing their OWN technologies. If you Linux gurus out there still remain unsatisfied with the virtue of patience, all I can say is stfu. Your tech isn't exactly best for a nice profit margin. Plus, once it provides as much flexibility to an array of users such as old man Rivers down the street, to the thirteen year old Asian in a basement somewhere in China (probably cracking the leaks of Longhorn right now), to developers AND servers then we'll talk. Not saying that Linux is a poor choice of web-server, but does it accommodate the rest? No it doesn't, if you just argued that statement. Unix was a great system, don't get me wrong, but it's time to let go, and wake up to a standard so we can ALL communicate effectively. Sorry about dragging on, but have any of you anti-MS reps actually seen the working conditions of MS employees. It is simply incredible. Those of you that appreciate free caffeine as much as I do free cocaine (I wish MS provided that in product packaging. Maybe I'd purchase it too), you should respect it a bit more. In defense to the developers, I'm sure they're not as money hungry (the damn well get paid enough) to release any of their products with any bugs, that may reflect poorly on them. Being a developer, of coursed based on Window's techs, I sure as hell don't like being responsible for assets gone missing when my 30 mile long TSQL proc actually listens to what I accidentally wrote. Nor are they wanting to be responsible for $50k in patch development. Then again, it is job security for all of us, isn't it?