Re: Why does every one hate Microsoft
- From: Ron Lopshire <notron@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:29:23 GMT
Dana wrote:
"Ron Lopshire" <notron@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dana wrote:
Even MS fanboys such as you have to admit that there is a _serious_
conflict of interest involved when Microsoft sells a defective,
unsecure product (XP, Vista), and then offers to secure it for $50.00
USD per year.
First off, I would like to restate that I am no fan of MS, yes I use their
products, but that does not mean I am a fan. Being that so many apps are
done with windows i.e. like office procucts, you need to run office
yourself. Yes there is some open source stuff out there. But to look at an
office doc or spreadsheet, it is best to use office.
I myself at work only use Unix servers and workstations, and would not trust
MS in the job I do.
MS cannot really say they have decent server products, as they do not on all
counts MS servers suck.
But yet we see many companies using MS servers, all because of the excellent
marketing that MS has.
You are /correct/ about the socialists at the US DOJ. The only thing
that came out of the anti-trust lawsuit against MS, and the only thing
that could have come out of it, was that a tremendous amount of money
was taken from consumers and put into the pockets of lawyers,
politicians, bureaucrats, and other ne'er-do-wells.
Granted that MS has positioned itself to be a dominant force in the home,
and business for computer use, pretty much ensuring that you have to use MS
products.
That is why I say let MS bundle all these security apps into windows, as
hopefully it will be done in the kludge like way we know MS to do, and when
it fails and security is still an issue, if not worse, people will finally
say enough is enough.
I would love to see HP or SUN come up with a Unix based distro for home and
small business users, that is affordable to those users. Of course
applications would also be needed to enable users to get away from windows,
but until that happens windows really has the market by the balls.
Giving a choice between sticking with MS or getting into bed with HP or Sun, I will stick with MS, thank you very much. Sun cannot even develop a decent installer. And I have never used any HP software that was not a total POS.
You are correct about Unix, though. Even the bullheaded dweebs at Apple gave up on their POS file system/kernel, and switched to a Unix kernel with Mac OS X.
Taking MS to court over anti trust and monopoly issues will always fail,
because it is the market that put MS where it is. The people knowing about
the security holes, knowing that windows is a resource hog and not very
stable when used as a server, still went out and bought the product.
I have to admitt that MS marketing is top notch, and that has done wonders
for MS.
As they say,
1) Follow the money.
2) Money talks, and bullshit walks.
I don't begrudge MS one bit for their market position. They didn't hold a gun to anyone's head.
Ron :)
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