Are you Tired of all the Microsoft Bashing Yet?

[PricklyPete]

Yes, very tired of it. I am all about competition, I just don't see whining as competition.

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: rh71
Like the author of the article, I am an IBMer ... and even though we're "supposed" to hate MS, some of us live in reality... where we use their products because it helps our productivity. You can credit this to "familiarity" if you want, but the fact is that they produce software that is, for the most part, intuitive. I've used a lot of IBM software (currently, and quietly, ranked #2 behind MS)... and it's just not as "intuitive" for a newbie to learn. It's not IBM's forte yet, as much as we'd love it to be on par. Even the big push for Linux for now is much talk and little action, as far as the end-users are concerned. Give it a few more years...

I've contributed my share of MS bashing in the past, because their Exchange software causes grief, but there isn't anything that's much of a better solution unless you like how slow Lotus Notes runs (God help me) or the antiquated Novell stuff...

You just have to go with the best offering of the times... and for now... that's MS. Even though most of our $89 billion annual revenue is made off of Linux servers supporting services, a good portion is still run on MS' stuff ...

I am a contractor for IBM and I hate you .... actually you guys treat contractors pretty poorly...but with that said Lotus notes blows...I loved working at the developers site and even listen to them crap talk their own product...too funny.

 

[SuperTool]

Basically the way I see it, MS is undermining their OS business by doing the X-Box for games.
If you have a console for games, there isn't much need for a Win PC. You can do programming, office, email, internet, videos, mp3s, graphics and web publishing on any OS.
Which is why MS is desparate to have its multimedia standards accepted,so it can restrict multimedia content to only windows PCs. They want you to need them.
Unless you play games on your PC, and need the compatibility, the rest is not OS dependent at all. Now all they got to do is add a mouse to the PS2 for easier strategy and first person
shooter play, and that's all there is to it. I am not going to upgrade my PC for a while. No need to. Why buy a $100 video card, if I can go get a console for $100?

 

[tk149]

1. When I no longer have to type in 48 characters to register WinXP, then type in the same 48 characters into Microsoft's website, then call Microsoft and speak 48 characters to some call center guy, just to register the OS that I bought, I'll consider not bashing Microsoft. Oh yeah, I had to argue with the call center guy to get him to let me register it. All I did was put in a new hard drive, and swapped the old hard drive to another IDE. What the heck do they need a 48 character registration code for, anyway?

2. XP is more stable than Win98, but is not anywhere near 100%. I may not get a BSOD, but I still have to reboot sometimes to get an app to work properly. Is it Microsoft's fault? I don't know, but I've had this problem with multiple 3rd party programs...and Microsoft programs.

3. Somebody explain this to me:

 

[n0cmonkey]

If only windows wasn't worse than Linux. Linux is crap, Windows is worse. FOR ME.

 

[yoda291]

here's my stance.

On the LAN end

BSD > Netware > OSX Server > Win2k > Linux

I really does say something about netware that I can move drives freely between different pieces of hardware.

On the network connected workstation end
Win2k > OSX > BSD = Linux

BSD = Linux because while linux has more software and is somewhat easier to install, bsd runs much better IMO. It says one thing to be able to get work done with 2-3 simultaneous makes going on in the background and software package management is light years ahead of what is in most linux distros...debian being an exception. Plus, let's not forget linux binary compatibility. Windows is > * simply because of support, options, corporate liability, interoperability, and the fact that there is vim for win32 + flash. If you've ever wanted to do flash programming on a Nix, you've prolly switched back to osx or windows.

On the web services end
BSD > Linux > Netware = win2k

 

The article is common sense.

Any IT guy worth his grit LIVES by that idea.

BSD server side, 2000 client side, if this does not work for you, you suck.

 

[Jugernot]

Though I agree with many of his points, his credibility went down when he said at just 35 years old, he was in computers during the hey day of punch cards. Hmmm, considering punch cards haven't been in wide use in the last 25-30 years, he would have been 5-10years old. :|

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Though I agree with many of his points, his credibility went down when he said at just 35 years old, he was in computers during the hey day of punch cards. Hmmm, considering punch cards haven't been in wide use in the last 25-30 years, he would have been 5-10years old. :|

I was working on IBM PC Jr.'s (I think that's what they were called) in First Grade on a daily basis at school. So that would have made me about 7 years old or so. I don't think it's inplausible for him to have used punch cards "in his day. "

 

[xirtam]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Though I agree with many of his points, his credibility went down when he said at just 35 years old, he was in computers during the hey day of punch cards. Hmmm, considering punch cards haven't been in wide use in the last 25-30 years, he would have been 5-10years old. :|

I was working on IBM PC Jr.'s (I think that's what they were called) in First Grade on a daily basis at school. So that would have made me about 7 years old or so. I don't think it's inplausible for him to have used punch cards "in his day. "

Hah! My first PC was an IBM PC Jr. in the 6th grade. 128 KB of RAM, DOS 2.1, 5.25" floppy, no hard drive, didn't have the modem, two cartridge slots...

...yeah, those were the days. I was forced to learn assembly because my BASICA programs were too slow.

Edit: Down with Microsoft.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: mchammer187

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: Colt45
no, never gonna get tired of it

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: SammySon
The article is common sense.

Any IT guy worth his grit LIVES by that idea.

BSD server side, 2000 client side, if this does not work for you, you suck.

any IT guy looking for job security also knows s/BSD/2000/

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Though I agree with many of his points, his credibility went down when he said at just 35 years old, he was in computers during the hey day of punch cards. Hmmm, considering punch cards haven't been in wide use in the last 25-30 years, he would have been 5-10years old. :|

I was working on IBM PC Jr.'s (I think that's what they were called) in First Grade on a daily basis at school. So that would have made me about 7 years old or so. I don't think it's inplausible for him to have used punch cards "in his day. "

I didn't say he didn't use them, I said he didn't use them in their hey day! That usually means when they were most common.... which was NOT 20 or even 25 years ago.