Poll: Do you like Microsoft?

[thebestMAX]

I liked them a lot better when the stock was over 100.

 

[Azraele]

No. Too many bugs in their products.

 

[cipher00]

In general, yes, but there are some things I don't like....

 

[MajesticMoose]

I'd like them a lot more if they didn't do all this anti-pirate crap so i'd get a full version of windows with my dell.

Moose

 

[jacobnero6918]

If there software was cheaper they wouldnt be bad. The problem is they charge to much for mediocre software.

 

[Descartes]

Honestly though, this argument about pricing, bugs, ad nauseum, is entirely unfounded.

It's all about perception. Bugs in a Linux environment are acceptable due to it's open source nature. Lets disregard the fact that much of the code that wrote this NOS isn't even ANSI (granted, not all can be, but some of the developers should read up on the standard).

Windows isn't free, it's closed source. These facts are enough to turn away those who's fickle minds still subscribe to propaganda. Any other argument is rather moot. If you can't afford a copy (or aren't resourceful), then this is a different story.

I work w/ both platforms, and get severely annoyed w/ both at times.

There is simply no panacean platform.

 

[smp]

I don't like the way they do business and windows could be better.. but I don't like the way business is done PERIOD nowadays...

 

[Descartes]

smp: Perhaps you were under the illusion that there were such a thing as a perfect product derived from the hands of man?

Sorry to disillusion you, but it's simply not true. I could name hundreds of software products that I have to integrate with that are FAR from perfect. Just like a romantic relationship, you get to know the idiosyncracies, and you either a) deal w/ it or b) find an alternative.

So far, I'd rather deal w/ the idiosyncratic ways of MS land than deal w/ the premature nature of the alternatives (note, I say this for my primary platform).