Xandax wrote:Well - calling things by their proper name is perhaps the first step of being taken seriously and unbiased.
I personally call them miKKKro$haft. The three Ks are used to compare them to the notorious white-supremacist organization the Ku Klux Klan, the dollar sign symbolizes how little they care about anything different than money and I have taken the additional liberty of replacing 'soft' with 'shaft' because that shows what I feel I'm getting every time I use their products. Let me tell you, I'm really clever.
...and I actually agree with Silur's sentiments too
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Xandax wrote:Well - calling things by their proper name is perhaps the first step of being taken seriously and unbiased.
M$ is a well-accepted shorthand for Microsoft. If I were to use the old shorthand from days of old; MS, no one would know what I was talking about - or worse, assume I was talking about Multiple Sclerosis. For peat's sake, they even have a board member named Cash, so there!
Now, I don't believe I was the one to start mixing comic references with serious commentary, so why this sudden need for formalism?
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dragon wench wrote:.... hardly surprising... Though I suppose at least they're dealing with the proprietary issue..
Reminds me of the fact that they apparently allow something like only three installations of Vista... under the same computer and owner, before demanding a new Vista purchase
Honestly... could MS possibly get any more grasping?
And then they wonder why people hate them so much!
The only pieces of software from M$ that I would ever recommend to anyone is Office.
True, there are options for Mac users. But those are limited to just them and hence defeats the purpose of a global standard. Office however works on both platforms and opensource ports do exist for Linux/Unix users.
Personally, I have worked on all three platforms and although Linux still would be my favorite for a more controlled and developer friendly environment, Mac takes the cake for Graphics design and basically anything artistic. That being said, for the average user, Vista is by far the most feasible choice. All the recent complaints about it are mostly related to users being stupid rather than Vista itself, the one notable exception is with the hard disk access speeds. For now, M$ appears to have finally done a decent job on their new operating system.
Xandax wrote:
If unhappy with Microsoft then don't buy it and use somebody else's products. It is a free market and peoples own choice of what they want to run and why.
A lot of people are, as you would see if you took a little walkie among the serious professionals of the Euro universities (I myself am particularly pleased that students are thusly redirected towards quality, but surprisingly enough, quite a few of them already use it.) - Linux rules there. Oh sure, Windows does exist - for the reasons already mentioned, some programs simply can only run under Windows, it is of course the whole issue already addressed here. I myself have it for exactly this reason, my main engineering program and my Linux do not mix.
As for Windows and it's problems - well that is not what bothers me, it is normal to expect them, nothing is perfect - but what is unacceptable is their obvious refusal to make that system function the way it actually could if they just got their eyes from all the dollars they are counting. I do wish you could meet this buddy of mine, total computer geek and see what happens to Windows once he'd done with it's registry and system overall - it works 10 times better. And you are telling me Micros&^% can't do that as well? Right. Dollars are all that count with them.
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Ashen wrote:A lot of people are, as you would see if you took a little walkie among the serious professionals of the Euro universities (I myself am particularly pleased that students are thusly redirected towards quality, but surprisingly enough, quite a few of them already use it.) - Linux rules there. Oh sure, Windows does exist - for the reasons already mentioned, some programs simply can only run under Windows, it is of course the whole issue already addressed here. I myself have it for exactly this reason, my main engineering program and my Linux do not mix.
As for Windows and it's problems - well that is not what bothers me, it is normal to expect them, nothing is perfect - but what is unacceptable is their obvious refusal to make that system function the way it actually could if they just got their eyes from all the dollars they are counting. I do wish you could meet this buddy of mine, total computer geek and see what happens to Windows once he'd done with it's registry and system overall - it works 10 times better. And you are telling me Micros&^% can't do that as well? Right. Dollars are all that count with them.
Give me any old computer and a gentoo linux CD and you will find that linux as well has certain ... shortcomings that can be tweaked... My ancient (well almost) laptop with a Intel Celeron processor and 256 MB RAM runs 40% faster than a out of the box install of linux. That being said, Vista will not even install on it. Dosnt conform to the minimum requirements.
It isnt about how much any single corp/group can do to make YOUR system work at its peak. They normalize their softwares to run on ANY system. It is for you as an informed individual to have those tweaks put in place to tap the full potential of your hardware.
I have long felt that the single biggest reason for me to run windows is my games and my never ending lust for more of them.