Bad about Microsoft
1) Their way of introducing file and network standards without making the standards public. (.wma.doc.mri etc.)
2) Not complying with other peoples standards.
Bad about Windows.
0) It's hard to avoid buying it.
1) No proper permissions on files, all users can delete your files.
2) Software must be downloaded for all task. The out of the box windows can't even split a file.
4) No package system and no certificates, The way of installing things is to run somefile.exe from somewhere.com. This caues A) lots of add/spy ware B) installing a new program often breaks an old one. C) You never know what you actaully installed, just because it was called zip.exe and came from zip.files.com doesn't mean it actually zips files.
5) No proper shell. You can't script things properly and, more importantly, when trying to help a friend out you can't just give him/her a line to copy paste into a terminal that will make everything ok.
6) Random behaviour. Things "just break" and it takes an expert to fix them; mere mortals are usually forced to reinstall from scratch. Windows also becomes sluggish after a while and "nobody knows why".
7) It spies on its users.
Finally, both Sun and Mac have made good commercial operative systems that both lacks most of the above faults. If they wanted to, Microsoft could too.
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1) Their way of introducing file and network standards without making the standards public. (.wma
2) Not complying with other peoples standards.
Bad about Windows.
0) It's hard to avoid buying it.
1) No proper permissions on files, all users can delete your files.
2) Software must be downloaded for all task. The out of the box windows can't even split a file.
4) No package system and no certificates, The way of installing things is to run somefile.exe from somewhere.com. This caues A) lots of add/spy ware B) installing a new program often breaks an old one. C) You never know what you actaully installed, just because it was called zip.exe and came from zip.files.com doesn't mean it actually zips files.
5) No proper shell. You can't script things properly and, more importantly, when trying to help a friend out you can't just give him/her a line to copy paste into a terminal that will make everything ok.
6) Random behaviour. Things "just break" and it takes an expert to fix them; mere mortals are usually forced to reinstall from scratch. Windows also becomes sluggish after a while and "nobody knows why".
7) It spies on its users.
Finally, both Sun and Mac have made good commercial operative systems that both lacks most of the above faults. If they wanted to, Microsoft could too.
Many of us would appreciate naming a similar forum that suck less.