INFOWORLD GRIPE LINE BY ED FOSTER Bookmark this page

  
Replying To:
Some of your points are spurious...[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#28)
by BobTheBuilder on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 11:07:40 AM PDT

I agree with much of what you said above, however throwing MS under the bus over and over is kind of silly.

Your first point should have been worded closer to this:

1) Microsoft makes an operating system that is constantly under attack from hackers, pirates and bad software vendors.

Regarding your second point, I challenge you to install ONLY Microsoft software and see consistently bad behavior. The instability is usually caused by some freeware that you just "have to have" or a bad vendor like Adobe who write software for the Mac and hack it to "sort of" work on the Windows platform. (not to mention the blizzard of mal-ware on the internet)

No operating system is perfect. Apple had a bunch of problems between OS7 and OS9 and OSX is starting to show some cracks here and there. Pure Linux will remain a predominantly engineering centric platform for the foreseeable future (same applies to UNIX). What are you looking for in an OS, a game console perhaps?

Your right that MS charges for support. But I have had good experience with that support when compared to Adobe (who also charge per call) . Or with Dell where you basically get to have someone read the user manual to you.


All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.
[ Parent ]



Post Comment

You are not logged in. If you don't have a user account yet, by all means go make one! If you do have one, you can post as "yourself" by filling in your nickname and password below. Otherwise, your comment will be posted as Anonymous User.

Create Account
Nickname:
Password:

Post Comment: Post your comment below and then please answer the security question. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it does help deter spammers. -- Ed Foster
Subject:
Comment:

To post your comment, please answer the following security question:
 Which of the following is a color?
Alaska, Maroon, Colorado, Shepherd, Texas, Pinscher
Allowed HTML: <A [HREF] [NAME]> <DT> <TT></TT> <OL></OL> <CITE></CITE> <CODE></CODE> <I></I> <UL></UL> <BR> <STRONG></STRONG> <BLOCKQUOTE [TYPE]></BLOCKQUOTE> <DD> <EM></EM> <P> <B></B> <LI> <DL></DL>
Menu
· create account
· faq
· search

Login
Make a new account
Username:
Password:

 HOME  NEWS  COLUMNS  BLOGS  PODCASTS  TECHNOLOGIES  TEST CENTER  EVENTS  CAREERS  IT EXEC-CONNECT   About Awards Contact Us 

Copyright © 2006, Reprints, Permissions, Licensing, IDG Network, Privacy Policy.
All Rights reserved. InfoWorld is a leading publisher of technology information and product reviews on topics including viruses,
phishing, worms, firewalls, security, servers, storage, networking, wireless, databases, and web services.

 ComputerWorld :: LinuxWorld :: Network World :: CIO :: PC World :: Darwin :: CMO :: CSO
IT Careers :: JavaWorld :: Macworld :: Mac Central :: Playlist :: GamePro :: GameStar :: Gamerhelp
ITWorld Canada :: Computerwoche :: Techworld UK :: tecChannel :: IDG.se :: IDG.no :: IDG.pl

create account | faq | search