You all keep trying to bash him for his knowledge but that isn't what the article was about at all... You have no idea how smart he is, why his wife uses IE, what kind of person his wife is, what he does on a daily basis, or what color his house his. Don't try to flame people when you have no idea what is really going on. Then I read people trying to hint to some random stranger on the internet that his relationship isn't secure... Just quit it and understand the article for what it was made for.
Microsoft is a terrible company that made a pieced together OS. Microsoft doesn't need to spend the millions on editing because they just put out the software and let the users do the bug testing for them so they can release patches(that isn't tested and screws up your computer even more... *cough*SP2*cough*) and they just go through a stupid circle until they claim the OS will not be supported anymore (by this time it is probably in the 3rd step of editing...).
I don't agree linux is that great of a desktop either but its guarenteed if Linux devs were given the task to make a great desktop, they would succeed. I would love to see the downfall of microsoft but users prevent that from happening since they don't want to change to Linux because its too different and people don't want to learn new things unless absolutly necessary.
In order for people to switch over to Linux, Linux devs are going to have to make an OS dedicated strictly for desktop then work their hardest to get software companies to write for that desktop... Because the lack of ease of availablitiy for normal software programs for Linux is a big down point to Linux as far as the normal user is concerned.
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You all keep trying to bash him for his knowledge but that isn't what the article was about at all... You have no idea how smart he is, why his wife uses IE, what kind of person his wife is, what he does on a daily basis, or what color his house his. Don't try to flame people when you have no idea what is really going on. Then I read people trying to hint to some random stranger on the internet that his relationship isn't secure... Just quit it and understand the article for what it was made for. Microsoft is a terrible company that made a pieced together OS. Microsoft doesn't need to spend the millions on editing because they just put out the software and let the users do the bug testing for them so they can release patches(that isn't tested and screws up your computer even more... *cough*SP2*cough*) and they just go through a stupid circle until they claim the OS will not be supported anymore (by this time it is probably in the 3rd step of editing...). I don't agree linux is that great of a desktop either but its guarenteed if Linux devs were given the task to make a great desktop, they would succeed. I would love to see the downfall of microsoft but users prevent that from happening since they don't want to change to Linux because its too different and people don't want to learn new things unless absolutly necessary. In order for people to switch over to Linux, Linux devs are going to have to make an OS dedicated strictly for desktop then work their hardest to get software companies to write for that desktop... Because the lack of ease of availablitiy for normal software programs for Linux is a big down point to Linux as far as the normal user is concerned.