nice as it is for instance (as well as MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris x86, Os/2 (long live this one, it was awesome imo) etc.), still has a LONG ways to go before it approaches acceptance like Windows has enjoyed, as well as the amount of tools & apps around them that Windows has! Development tools are another one, there is really NOTHING out there imo as nice as tools like Ms' Visual Studio (or heck, the programmability of their Office apps like Word, Excel, & Access for example), or tools from companies like Borland in Delphi &/or C++ Builder (which are cross-platform to Linux no less from the same codebase & simple to port to KDE + Qt libs it uses)...
I think your referring really to the open-source movement, rather than "Anti-microsoft" campaigning.
What idiots like you dont understand is that the software you _PAY_ for, has equivelents that are just as good, or better, for free. Have you ever browsed berlios.de or sourceforge.net? There are thousands of pieces of software that better that provided by proprietry software.
Programability of Word/Excel? LMFAO! WTF is wrong with you? Your forced to code in VBA - a disgusting language, stemmed from (yet another) Mircosofts rip-off of BASIC.
Development tools like MS Visual studio? pahahahaehaeh!!!! Have you used Eclipse (eclipse.org), netbeans or any other OS, free, equivalents?
Can we get off this "Microsoft make great software; hell, their innovators". They aren't. They rip-off genuine ideas from other people, they rehash it and sell it (bug ridden and insecure might I add) at a extortionate price - and to top it all off, nobheads like yourself go buy it _AND THEN_ go ranting that its worth something!!!
Bah!!!
I think the spyware issue is behind us, lots of improvments have been done the last 2 years to counter this problem, Windows Vista will futher improve this and many other issues.
Dude, you need to get an erection or something. The fact of the matter is, the spyware/adware/malware issue is NOT behind us, various strains of the above are created weekly.
Secondly, vista will just hide these shortcomings that previous versions have expressed. The world is using an operating system that is inferior, insecure, flakey, tempremental and damnright facist. You don't seem to understand that the longer people use windows, the less chance we've got of keeping control of our computers in the future, and the availability or the information we so grossly take for granted today.
It has been suggested that WinFS will offer this sort of feature. Of course, will you be willing to use Windows Vista for that feature, however?
Well, initial versions of Vista apparently wont have WinFS (its been moved backwards), so potentailly, WinFS wont be with us until EVEN LONGER.
Thank fuck.
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nice as it is for instance (as well as MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris x86, Os/2 (long live this one, it was awesome imo) etc.), still has a LONG ways to go before it approaches acceptance like Windows has enjoyed, as well as the amount of tools & apps around them that Windows has! Development tools are another one, there is really NOTHING out there imo as nice as tools like Ms' Visual Studio (or heck, the programmability of their Office apps like Word, Excel, & Access for example), or tools from companies like Borland in Delphi &/or C++ Builder (which are cross-platform to Linux no less from the same codebase & simple to port to KDE + Qt libs it uses)...
I think your referring really to the open-source movement, rather than "Anti-microsoft" campaigning. What idiots like you dont understand is that the software you _PAY_ for, has equivelents that are just as good, or better, for free. Have you ever browsed berlios.de or sourceforge.net? There are thousands of pieces of software that better that provided by proprietry software.
Programability of Word/Excel? LMFAO! WTF is wrong with you? Your forced to code in VBA - a disgusting language, stemmed from (yet another) Mircosofts rip-off of BASIC. Development tools like MS Visual studio? pahahahaehaeh!!!! Have you used Eclipse (eclipse.org), netbeans or any other OS, free, equivalents? Can we get off this "Microsoft make great software; hell, their innovators". They aren't. They rip-off genuine ideas from other people, they rehash it and sell it (bug ridden and insecure might I add) at a extortionate price - and to top it all off, nobheads like yourself go buy it _AND THEN_ go ranting that its worth something!!! Bah!!!
I think the spyware issue is behind us, lots of improvments have been done the last 2 years to counter this problem, Windows Vista will futher improve this and many other issues.
Dude, you need to get an erection or something.
The fact of the matter is, the spyware/adware/malware issue is NOT behind us, various strains of the above are created weekly. Secondly, vista will just hide these shortcomings that previous versions have expressed. The world is using an operating system that is inferior, insecure, flakey, tempremental and damnright facist. You don't seem to understand that the longer people use windows, the less chance we've got of keeping control of our computers in the future, and the availability or the information we so grossly take for granted today.
Wake the fuck up please
"I hope in 5 or 6 years time the Windows anniversary will be about 'the year MS lost its monopoly'."
I'd prefer, "the day the world woke up"
or, more to the point - it exists because of windows' shortcomings and failures.
It has been suggested that WinFS will offer this sort of feature. Of course, will you be willing to use Windows Vista for that feature, however? Well, initial versions of Vista apparently wont have WinFS (its been moved backwards), so potentailly, WinFS wont be with us until EVEN LONGER. Thank fuck.