Poll: Not sure this one has been done before

[Argo]

How many of you here think that most microsoft products are better than competition. Just wondering, since all this discussions about XP are becoming pretty popular lately.

 

[ProviaFan]

A few MS products better than competition? Yes. Most? No. (this is just MHO; no flames, please).

 

[Viper GTS]

What competition?



Viper GTS

 

[0ops]

Some are better. Some have undesirable features like allowing viruses
to spread like crazy, but overall a company dedicated to a specific
type of software make a better product than ms.

 

[glenn1]

To answer your question, IMHO:

Windows: qualified yes (in W2K flavor, yes, Win9x, not really)
Internet Explorer: unqualified yes (Netscrape blows)
Office: toss-up (Star Office, WordPerfect are credible competitors)
Instant Messenging: no (AIM, and to a lesser extent, ICQ beat it)
Media Player: no (WinAmp, etc are much better)

 

[Argo]

Ok, i guess i wasn't specific enough. Let's just talk about major software: windows, office, etc...

 

[0ops]

<< Windows: qualified yes (in W2K flavor, yes,
>>



I wouldn't go that far...



<< Internet Explorer: unqualified yes (Netscrape blows) >>


Its faster but tends to crash for absolutely no logical reason.
And their activex things are really annoying.



<< Office: toss-up (Star Office, WordPerfect are credible competitors) >>


give me emacs and LaTeX any day. I can't find an alternative to
powerpoint though.

I like Outlook (except for its virus spreading capability).

Borland c++ builder is better than visual studio.

SQL Server is good except for a few nasty bugs.

IIS just sucks

Visual Basic is the spawn of the devil.

I have heard that any MS software for macs is suck and Photoshop is
better than anything MS has.

EDIT: IE just crapped out after i finished

 

[Argo]

I agree with most said here:

Except:

-win2k is definitely better. I worked as a sys admin for 2 years. I got to use windows 2k advances server on a network with about 100 computers running win2k pro. That thing is pretty idiot proof, didn't give me much trouble (except on AMD systems ).

-office 2k/xp: I haven't used any other office software, but I'm pretty satisfied with office. Especially, from the developers point of view.

-IE: the guys in our company who work on thin clien stuff say it's much easier to work under compared to netscape. As far as stability goes, both crash a lot

-VB: Well, I don't know any alternatives.

-VC: I love it. I used borland before, but VC is a lot better for huge projects. The one I'm working on now contains 5000+ source code files. I don't see borland handling that well.

- SQL server is pretty good but Oracle is much better IMHO.

-Their tech support is one of the best out there.


Well, this is just my experiences. Others may perhaps disagree.

 

[0ops]

<< -win2k is definitely better. >>



my question is compared to what? I have not worked with
servers, but have you spent an equal amount of time with
linux/freebsd servers? In general, as an operating system
I would prefer linux.

and you may be right about VC, but it seems that the rule
is that if you need to do something complicated, ms is not
the answer.

 

[Cooltech2k]

I Like everything microsoft makes except there OS's

 

[wjones]

A vote for Win2k, but not Win9x series.
Like Viper GTS said, What competition?

 

[MrCodeDude]

You all think of IE vs. Netscape. What about, IE vs. Opera? Personally, I think IE's marginally better, but in terms of speed and crashes, IE loses to Opera. Just if it didn't have that AOL type interface.
-- mrcodedude