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Xeen:
Someone apparently from these forums posted a link to Microsuck's Whats So Bad About Microsoft article, and some Microsoftee guy responded to it!

 
quote:"I'd like to see you write a counter-article for facts written here: http://www.microsuck.com/content/whatsbad.shtml"

I'll save Paul some time and start this one for him:

1) Bloat. Well i'm sure glad to see there are people in the world that wish we could still use our old 2Mb HDDs and single-digit megahertz processors for something. But the fact is, innovation takes processing power and space. EVERY operating system has grown immensely in size. Hell, i downloaded SuSe the other day and had to download SIX GIGABYTES to do the installation. Anti-Microsoft people call it 'bloat'. Intelligent people (who actually think before speaking) realize that using what is available is how the industry has grown forward from where it was 20 years ago.

2)Backwards Incompatibility. Well damn. if you want to talk about bloat, talk about an OS (or any program) that is compatible with every previous version of its software/documents. I don't care if its not compatible with one version backwards, as long as i can get a converter. Because chances are the new version works better and faster.

3) Perpetual upgrading. Ha. You want to nail microsoft with that. I'm constantly having to upgrade software that comes from the open source community on my Linux box (when i feel like wasting my time keeping it updated). Microsoft introduces new, compelling features with each release. If you don't want them, don't get them, you don't need them.

3) Vaporware. Find a company that doesn't do it. I bet you can't. Hell, my company of 5 people does it. Microsoft just does it better, and people know that, once it does come out with something, its going to work well, and work well with their existing installations.

Skipping a few to hit the ones that are the dumbest..

6) IE was better than NS starting with v4. Still is. Its getting alot of good competition (took long enough) now but it was much better than NS, certainly not inferior. MS's version of Java was SIGNIFICANTLY better than Sun's on the Windows platform and was a great benefit to developers who used it (their applications were MUCH faster than ones developed against Sun's implementation. Some of the other arguments are, in part, valid.

7) Bugs. Want to talk about bugs, eh? Numbers of bugs in Windows versus Linux distros are roughly comparable and often lean in favor of the software giant. So where's that whole community of people with eyes all over the code fixing everything? Well, its a fact, programmers make mistakes and introduce bugs. Windows is no worse than Linux, it just gets much more exposure and thus criticism. Linux's time will come.

That's all for now... hopefully someone appreciates the response...

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Though the guy does make one or two minor good points, the rest is baloney if you ask me.

Refalm:
Where was this posted?

flap:
I don't see a single good point in that.

cahult:
This guy has nothing to say that I didn

Xeen:
Sorry, forgot the link:
http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?Action=Comments&ArticleID=40438

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