The article is smoking crack on one point: It's not the *users* who are inertial. It's the Minesweeper Champion Solitaire Experts (MCSE) who run their IT operations, who are deeply invested in all the crap they had to learn to keep Domain Controllers and Exchange Servers running.
The ignorance displayed in statements like this is astounding to me, but I guess any high school kid with a keyboard can comment here.
Our IS department really wanted to go to Gmail and away from Outlook, but the USERS were the ones who would not switch. Gmail has no nested folders for example, which was a deal killer by itself. The integration of email, contacts, tasks and calendar in Outlook is light years ahead of the Google set of tools. My mistake was underestimating the sophistication of the users. Gmail is actually attractive to me as a CIO from a support and expense perspective, but it is a non-starter for heavy email users in a business of any size. As far a reliability, our Exchange box has gone done zero times in the past two years, but Gmail has been down several times in the same period. For those businesses that live and die by email, that fact is significant.
Well, obviously you haven't worked in many corporate environments of any size. Our Exchange/Outlook cluster once went 4 years without any unplanned downtime. For companies of any size that depend on e-mail (and practically all do), hours of email downtime is a major disaster.
I've never read a more infantile display of whining from someone with an obvious inferiority complex. Stallman exhibits a breathtaking level of paranoia and probably believes Gates AND Microsoft black helicopters are flying around him with super-sensitive microphones so they can be in a position to dominate the world with their cabal of confederates and governments.
Pitiful.
Virtually all the convictions for vote fraud are related to Democrats. Look it up. Virtually all the imagined vote fraud is by Republicans as posited by Democrats.
The comments regarding this post remind me that the greatest threat to widespread Linux adoption are the attitudes reflected by its most vocal proponents.
"which political party in the US supports a woman's right to her own body?" I was unaware that a fetus was a part of a woman's body. DNA doesn't match for sure. The party supporting abortion cares only about one half the combination, the one with a vote. No compassion there, just cold, hard calculation.
People who oppose the cards seem to frequently be afraid that some type of shameful behavior will be revealed. That is not a compelling argument to people who don't engage in shameful behavior. In the US the potential benefits of ID cards clearly outweigh the detriments put forth by overwrought opponents.
Microsoft's demise won't happen in our lifetimes. Sorry Apple and Linux users, but most people in the real world want best of breed applications. With few exceptions, the ones you find run on Windows boxes. In my particular part of the the business world (a law firm), the penetration of Apple and Linux is functionally zero. When I attend national professional technical meetings, and look at the hundreds of vendors supporting this market, Apple and Linux based systems are non-existent. I firmly believe Linux is a competitive server OS and Apple has stylish boxes, but neither of these are compelling reasons to adopt their use when best of breed business applications that run on them are practically non-existent.
Nearly any application you choose will run faster and more reliably on a vanilla PC than a Mac. The only question is why would you cripple yourself from the outset?
You must be fairly sheltered. In our (legal) firm, Sharepoint is used for both our Intranet and Extranet and I know of at least 100 other firms that use it for the same purposes.
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Man, there are sure a lot of dimwit iPhone users out there...
The article is smoking crack on one point: It's not the *users* who are inertial. It's the Minesweeper Champion Solitaire Experts (MCSE) who run their IT operations, who are deeply invested in all the crap they had to learn to keep Domain Controllers and Exchange Servers running.
The ignorance displayed in statements like this is astounding to me, but I guess any high school kid with a keyboard can comment here.
Our IS department really wanted to go to Gmail and away from Outlook, but the USERS were the ones who would not switch. Gmail has no nested folders for example, which was a deal killer by itself. The integration of email, contacts, tasks and calendar in Outlook is light years ahead of the Google set of tools. My mistake was underestimating the sophistication of the users. Gmail is actually attractive to me as a CIO from a support and expense perspective, but it is a non-starter for heavy email users in a business of any size. As far a reliability, our Exchange box has gone done zero times in the past two years, but Gmail has been down several times in the same period. For those businesses that live and die by email, that fact is significant.
"I would eat the corn out of Apple's shit. Google is evil, and if I could figure out a way to work it in, so is Microsoft."
Well Duh. Mod down if you want, but the law is pretty clearly written. Don't like it? Vote out the Democrat dominated Congress that blessed it.
Islam is a religion, not a race. Your comments about racism are idiotic.
Turns out Microsoft's model is the right one...
Well, obviously you haven't worked in many corporate environments of any size. Our Exchange/Outlook cluster once went 4 years without any unplanned downtime. For companies of any size that depend on e-mail (and practically all do), hours of email downtime is a major disaster.
I can't say I'm surprised that a major league spammer is also a demented psychopath. Is anyone truly surprised?
I've never read a more infantile display of whining from someone with an obvious inferiority complex. Stallman exhibits a breathtaking level of paranoia and probably believes Gates AND Microsoft black helicopters are flying around him with super-sensitive microphones so they can be in a position to dominate the world with their cabal of confederates and governments. Pitiful.
This study and the comments on this site do show that liberals are much more willing to accept lousy science if it plays into their stereotypes.
This guy doesn't have a clue about administering Windows in a business environment.
This analysis is about 1 mm deep.
You aren't going to get a clue by reading the drivel on this site.
Virtually all the convictions for vote fraud are related to Democrats. Look it up. Virtually all the imagined vote fraud is by Republicans as posited by Democrats.
The comments regarding this post remind me that the greatest threat to widespread Linux adoption are the attitudes reflected by its most vocal proponents.
Wrong, there is nowhere near universal agreement.
It is obvious from most of the commentary here that virtually no one commenting on this decision have actually read and understood it. Typical.
"which political party in the US supports a woman's right to her own body?" I was unaware that a fetus was a part of a woman's body. DNA doesn't match for sure. The party supporting abortion cares only about one half the combination, the one with a vote. No compassion there, just cold, hard calculation.
Sorry, he just wasn't funny.
People who oppose the cards seem to frequently be afraid that some type of shameful behavior will be revealed. That is not a compelling argument to people who don't engage in shameful behavior. In the US the potential benefits of ID cards clearly outweigh the detriments put forth by overwrought opponents.
... for honest people. Big issue for others and something for Open Source folks to whine about.
Microsoft's demise won't happen in our lifetimes. Sorry Apple and Linux users, but most people in the real world want best of breed applications. With few exceptions, the ones you find run on Windows boxes. In my particular part of the the business world (a law firm), the penetration of Apple and Linux is functionally zero. When I attend national professional technical meetings, and look at the hundreds of vendors supporting this market, Apple and Linux based systems are non-existent. I firmly believe Linux is a competitive server OS and Apple has stylish boxes, but neither of these are compelling reasons to adopt their use when best of breed business applications that run on them are practically non-existent.
Nearly any application you choose will run faster and more reliably on a vanilla PC than a Mac. The only question is why would you cripple yourself from the outset?
Why would I want to run XP on machines that virtually every objective review says are slower and more expensive than PCs?
You must be fairly sheltered. In our (legal) firm, Sharepoint is used for both our Intranet and Extranet and I know of at least 100 other firms that use it for the same purposes.