Microsoft haters
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If I said that, "I love Microsoft." The flame war would decimate a couple of continents, and dry up an ocean or two. I use Win 10 and 7. I also use two versions of Linux. My son is a developer and he uses Mac. This is just to show I really don't have much of a dog in the race here. Why does everyone want to waste there time hating MS? Net Market Share reports that 84.57% of desk top operating systems are MS. I know MS. I don't have to spend hours learning more. Linux takes up a chunk of my time learning the directory/file system and how to move around in it. I don't have time for Mac. I live in a cold, dark place called reality where I have to use what the shop is using and at home I just want to work the Sudoku, watch some electronics how to videos on you tube. I don't care what the platform is.
Leadership equals wrecked ship. If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone. If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
I earn my salary using windows and visual studio. Nuff said!
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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If I said that, "I love Microsoft." The flame war would decimate a couple of continents, and dry up an ocean or two. I use Win 10 and 7. I also use two versions of Linux. My son is a developer and he uses Mac. This is just to show I really don't have much of a dog in the race here. Why does everyone want to waste there time hating MS? Net Market Share reports that 84.57% of desk top operating systems are MS. I know MS. I don't have to spend hours learning more. Linux takes up a chunk of my time learning the directory/file system and how to move around in it. I don't have time for Mac. I live in a cold, dark place called reality where I have to use what the shop is using and at home I just want to work the Sudoku, watch some electronics how to videos on you tube. I don't care what the platform is.
Leadership equals wrecked ship. If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone. If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
In fairness, I think you can divide the hate into two separate camps: 1) Hatred for Windows (yes I know they have other software, but most of the hate is directed at Windows itself) 2) Hatred for the company. Full disclosure: I'm primarily a Linux Mint user although I do have a Windows 7 partition at home and use Windows Server 2008R2 at work. Most of the hate towards Windows is based on their continual redesign. People hate change but they hate change for the sake of change even more. From comments that I have seen, most hated is the take-it-or-leave-it attitude of Microsoft to many users that are stuck with the Windows eco-system for reasons of legacy software and if they had a more stable alternative would leave-it in a heartbeat. Many organisations *know* they are stuck with Windows and would rather that Microsoft didn't keep rubbing their collective faces in it. What they don't seem to realise is that if you write and sell software that people love, they will buy it in droves. You don't have to blackmail them: a lesson that the big media companies would do well to learn. Secondly, the company has some rather unsavoury history regarding their competitors and their re-sellers. Much of that corporate attitude is still evident to this day. Witness for example, the collusion with motherboard manufacturers to produce hardware that will *only* run Windows by design under the trojan horse of "increased security".
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
No opinion on Linux,
If you want to spend time finding drivers and researching how to do simple things then it is great. Or if you want to contribute to building the OS, it is great. If you are in no mood to have to learn basic things all over then it is not worth it. I have Ubuntu and will gladly pay the money to get Windows next time I buy a PC. Free was not worth it in this case.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
My experience differs. I am not a fanboi of any system. I am running Linux on my 4th generation workstation, started some 10-15 years ago. No problems with drivers and no manufacturer downloaded drivers. This can certainly be problematic for laptops though. If you worked back in DOS/W3.1 days, not all that hard to pick up. I am still running an older version of Mint (17.1). Easy to keep current (doesn't sneak up on me) and never crashes (neither do any of my W7-10 VM's). I run Windows XP, 7, 10 in virtual machines. Do my programming, mostly, in W10 with VS 2015 and 2017, even still do some FoxPro stuff in XP. Nobody in their right mind would run my stuff on hardware systems. I like them all. I struggle with them all. I run the W10 VM's on both Linux and on a MBP, I swear at any of them when I struggle, blaming them for my shortcomings. Who doesn't? Don't hate anything or any computer/program companies. Prefer some, avoid some. If I don't like them, I move on. We run several Windows systems, virtual, on ESX. Some servers, some desktops. All of them baffle me at times. :cool:
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree". Anonymous
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If I said that, "I love Microsoft." The flame war would decimate a couple of continents, and dry up an ocean or two. I use Win 10 and 7. I also use two versions of Linux. My son is a developer and he uses Mac. This is just to show I really don't have much of a dog in the race here. Why does everyone want to waste there time hating MS? Net Market Share reports that 84.57% of desk top operating systems are MS. I know MS. I don't have to spend hours learning more. Linux takes up a chunk of my time learning the directory/file system and how to move around in it. I don't have time for Mac. I live in a cold, dark place called reality where I have to use what the shop is using and at home I just want to work the Sudoku, watch some electronics how to videos on you tube. I don't care what the platform is.
Leadership equals wrecked ship. If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone. If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
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If I said that, "I love Microsoft." The flame war would decimate a couple of continents, and dry up an ocean or two. I use Win 10 and 7. I also use two versions of Linux. My son is a developer and he uses Mac. This is just to show I really don't have much of a dog in the race here. Why does everyone want to waste there time hating MS? Net Market Share reports that 84.57% of desk top operating systems are MS. I know MS. I don't have to spend hours learning more. Linux takes up a chunk of my time learning the directory/file system and how to move around in it. I don't have time for Mac. I live in a cold, dark place called reality where I have to use what the shop is using and at home I just want to work the Sudoku, watch some electronics how to videos on you tube. I don't care what the platform is.
Leadership equals wrecked ship. If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone. If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
Caveat I make a living developing WPF apps. We are currently looking at moving our last mile to office 365 and I'm terrified. Having spent the last 25 years developing on the windows platform MS have a track record of fucking up the environment, especially when office is in the development stack. And they will never be forgiven for the demise of Silverlight!!!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I not say "hate," rather "dislike." - less strong. Briefly why: They are the BMW drivers of the software world.
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As In "Big Money Wasted", or "I would not want to own one not under warranty?" I would tend to agree... BTW, I am a BASHER of MSFT, simply because I expect more from them. Also, they get the blame, because 84% of the desktops are suffering from their GOOD and BAD decisions. We all have stories to tell, because we all have experience with them. And at some point, their bad decisions have crushed us. Programs I wrote 30 years ago should still work. have you tried to run Basica lately? Win3.1 16 bit code? the constant need to refresh working code. Ugghhh. How about windows 10 no longer liking programs that write program data to a Data folder under the program folder... Ahhh, progress... So, it's a love hate thing. I love that I can write and sell software that runs on Windows. But I hate the fact that the definition of "Windows" is too flexible, and that MSFT will make a bonehead change (like assuming everything is a tablet), or try to run a PIG on a phone. And I am left to deal with the problems... Don't get me started with tweaking the office file formats, and thwarting standards, and giving things away free, until they become popular and competition drops, then gouging... But still not as bad as I feel Oracle has been behaving!
