Re: How To Abandon Microsoft

From: Hugo (conscience_at_minds.org)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:37:35 +1000

Mxsmanic wrote:
> Hugo writes:
>> Just wait untill you have a few hours without much of a workload, and
>> give the instruction; no exactly hard ...
> Sounds like you've never had 40,000 desktops to upgrade worldwide.
 The discussion was about single workstations.
 For multiple machines, even two using the same processor family, never mind
40,000; you upgrade one, check it out top to bottom, then apply it to the
others, a matter of a few minutes and they are all updated.

> Upgrades can take many months in production environments.
 Up to a week to check all software packages being used on all the systems;
then minutes to apply the packages across the network.

> No. I just have actual experience running large and small computer
> systems and networks in real production environments.

 You have a lot of experience running Microsoft technologies by the sound of
it, this is not a reflection upon you, it's a tribute if you like to the
marketing skills of Microsoft in convincing so much of the unwashed masses
that they had to use Microsoft applications to succeed in anything.
 
 But you should also become aware of the fact that Microsoft has never
peddled new or innovative products, but instead added gimmicks and sales
glitter to code development which was decades old (by other people).
 The current generation of their base OS, you may think of it as being a
consumer version of their NT technology? Whereas people who have been in
the industry for a few decades know it's the Microsoft version of the old
OS/2 ver. 1 technology sitting under the desktop and binary registry system
developed for OS/2 ver 2.
 Their product seller, Word is the continuing kludging of a concept in word
processors and a specific set of code that's over twenty years old. I see
no reason that anyone should be paying Microsoft one cent for outdated
softwares that have been surpassed by Open Source technologies.

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