Microsoft Fanboy?
It is not a secret by any means that there is a fondness I have for Microsoft. Is it irrational, with no basis? Will I pioneer and push MS products that suck over other valid alternatives? Am I secretly employeed by MS getting kickbacks for my pro-MS propaganda?
Hardly.
Most of my pro-MS "propaganda" is pushback against an increasingly hostile market. It is en-vogue to bash MS.
When your Windows PC crashes, it is easy to blame Microsoft's shoddy programming skills. When you get a virus or spyware, Microsoft and their damn security vulnerabilities.
Microsoft and their damn monopoly crushing all competitors and stifling innovation.
File lawsuit upon lawsuit. Force Microsoft to bleed defending itself against increasing pressure to close them down, to break them up, to shatter and fragment and destroy the money making entity that is unjustly overcharging us for their software.
Please. It makes me sick.
It makes me sick that people tried to sue Microsoft for including a browser in the OS for free, when the alternative would be that we would, had it not been for MS, be paying for our web browsers and as a result, the rapid growth of the www would never have come to pass since people are far more willing to use something if they get it for free.
Tell me, what alternative for MS Office out there does everything office does better?
People claim that MS leverages money from different sectors to float others. I say.. so WHAT? Anyone would be an idiot if they didn't do that. How many olympic runners do you see chopping limbs off so that they have no unfair advantages when competing with people who have no limbs?
And, the very thing that people claimed, that Microsoft had a monopoly and could squeeze out competitors is being proved false as we speak... Microsoft has proven to dominate in the conventional marketplace. IE was unequivocally better than Netscape and won. And yet, had the courts had their way and the naysayers, IE would have been shut down and we'd all be buying Netscape Navigator X.xxx. Office was unequivocally better than SmartSuit or any other alternatives, but people are now getting money from MS for being "overcharged" for these products in a class action lawsuit.
Excuse me? Since when do people file class action lawsuits because they are paying too much for the best product on the market? How is that even LEGAL?
People wonder why companies start collapsing under their weight? Microsoft is the one company that has continued to thrive despite its size, but how can anyone compete when you have to deal with people STEALING money from you and it is considered LEGAL?
Google, the rising star, doesn't have any of this political dead weight. Google is busy eating away at Microsoft from every possible angle, Apple at other angles, Sony, Linux... Google can spend far more of their money on research because they don't have to worry about getting sued by every damn person that owns a computer and every corrupt politician looking to fund their state of choice. How is that even remotely fair? Let google kick MS's ass fair and square, there is NO need to screw Microsoft out of their hard earned money and force them to fight crippled with their limbs bleeding profusely.
Google has found a model that works. A brilliant and exciting one no less. They offer their products for free and yet, I don't see anyone complaining that we don't pay for searches on google. I don't see the courts suing google for having a monopoly on search engines and bundling emails and bloggers and maps and online spreadsheets for free with their search engine. Of course google is going to be lithe and fast. They aren't overencumbered by the bullshit of the US government.
Monopoly my ass! Google is starting to make free online office applications. I say.. GREAT! But damn it, if I'm going to use their product, it is going to be because it is BETTER, or at least offers a BETTER VALUE than the alternatives, not because the market leader was killed off by politics.
I have considered getting a mac on many occasions, but you know what? It's expensive, has less software and hardware support, and SLOWER than a PC. Does it crash less? Perhaps, OSX is a mighty fine OS, but given the fact that the number of people (and subsequently hackers) that use a Mac are dwarfed by many orders of magnitude by PC users, it is no surprise there are no viruses and fewer found security vulnerabilities. The vast majority of crashes on a PC are caused by poorly written device drivers. Guess what. Microsoft doesn't make those. I certainly didn't forget my high school years using Mac OS 8.xxx or 9.xxx and getting the sad mac all the damn time and not having a multi-threaded OS when my home computer was running Windows 95 10x faster, with more simultaneous applications, better gaming support, AND fewer crashes.
That means, the VAST majority of times your computer crashes, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with code that microsoft has written and everything to do with that budget video card you bought that has crappy drivers.
Is this entry too long? Yeah.. so what. Bite me haters! =P
Hardly.
Most of my pro-MS "propaganda" is pushback against an increasingly hostile market. It is en-vogue to bash MS.
When your Windows PC crashes, it is easy to blame Microsoft's shoddy programming skills. When you get a virus or spyware, Microsoft and their damn security vulnerabilities.
Microsoft and their damn monopoly crushing all competitors and stifling innovation.
File lawsuit upon lawsuit. Force Microsoft to bleed defending itself against increasing pressure to close them down, to break them up, to shatter and fragment and destroy the money making entity that is unjustly overcharging us for their software.
Please. It makes me sick.
It makes me sick that people tried to sue Microsoft for including a browser in the OS for free, when the alternative would be that we would, had it not been for MS, be paying for our web browsers and as a result, the rapid growth of the www would never have come to pass since people are far more willing to use something if they get it for free.
Tell me, what alternative for MS Office out there does everything office does better?
People claim that MS leverages money from different sectors to float others. I say.. so WHAT? Anyone would be an idiot if they didn't do that. How many olympic runners do you see chopping limbs off so that they have no unfair advantages when competing with people who have no limbs?
And, the very thing that people claimed, that Microsoft had a monopoly and could squeeze out competitors is being proved false as we speak... Microsoft has proven to dominate in the conventional marketplace. IE was unequivocally better than Netscape and won. And yet, had the courts had their way and the naysayers, IE would have been shut down and we'd all be buying Netscape Navigator X.xxx. Office was unequivocally better than SmartSuit or any other alternatives, but people are now getting money from MS for being "overcharged" for these products in a class action lawsuit.
Excuse me? Since when do people file class action lawsuits because they are paying too much for the best product on the market? How is that even LEGAL?
People wonder why companies start collapsing under their weight? Microsoft is the one company that has continued to thrive despite its size, but how can anyone compete when you have to deal with people STEALING money from you and it is considered LEGAL?
Google, the rising star, doesn't have any of this political dead weight. Google is busy eating away at Microsoft from every possible angle, Apple at other angles, Sony, Linux... Google can spend far more of their money on research because they don't have to worry about getting sued by every damn person that owns a computer and every corrupt politician looking to fund their state of choice. How is that even remotely fair? Let google kick MS's ass fair and square, there is NO need to screw Microsoft out of their hard earned money and force them to fight crippled with their limbs bleeding profusely.
Google has found a model that works. A brilliant and exciting one no less. They offer their products for free and yet, I don't see anyone complaining that we don't pay for searches on google. I don't see the courts suing google for having a monopoly on search engines and bundling emails and bloggers and maps and online spreadsheets for free with their search engine. Of course google is going to be lithe and fast. They aren't overencumbered by the bullshit of the US government.
Monopoly my ass! Google is starting to make free online office applications. I say.. GREAT! But damn it, if I'm going to use their product, it is going to be because it is BETTER, or at least offers a BETTER VALUE than the alternatives, not because the market leader was killed off by politics.
I have considered getting a mac on many occasions, but you know what? It's expensive, has less software and hardware support, and SLOWER than a PC. Does it crash less? Perhaps, OSX is a mighty fine OS, but given the fact that the number of people (and subsequently hackers) that use a Mac are dwarfed by many orders of magnitude by PC users, it is no surprise there are no viruses and fewer found security vulnerabilities. The vast majority of crashes on a PC are caused by poorly written device drivers. Guess what. Microsoft doesn't make those. I certainly didn't forget my high school years using Mac OS 8.xxx or 9.xxx and getting the sad mac all the damn time and not having a multi-threaded OS when my home computer was running Windows 95 10x faster, with more simultaneous applications, better gaming support, AND fewer crashes.
That means, the VAST majority of times your computer crashes, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with code that microsoft has written and everything to do with that budget video card you bought that has crappy drivers.
Is this entry too long? Yeah.. so what. Bite me haters! =P
posted by Gigaflop at
7:59 AM
1 Comments:
You have mis-used the term hacker as a synonym for cracker or virus writer.
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