Microsoft; Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em!

Your first link doesn\'t work, Digit, FYI.

 

Yes we all know how evil microsoft is, but I likes my games. Currently i have Mandrake Linux and win xp running.

 

wow, thats wild.


fortunetly i dont think im very important to anyone. not really anything to bust me for. and being that im your average white male in north america, any profiling they can do on me from my info is gonna be pretty generic.



anyways thanks for the info digit, if you get any more, keep it comming.



edit: being that we are outside of the united states, do they still have the power to keep tabs on us like this? is there any legality side to it?

 

im do not like microsoft much myself. They have become the standard, everyone expects to have windows on their computer when they buy them, it is really all they know. It is quite easy to learn an new OS. Several of my classes at school are classes like microsoft network admin and we use mainly microsoft office programs like frontpage and access too. We also have classes teachin unix, novel network admin, and some other non microsoft products. There are accually better products than microsoft makes, cheaper too. I guess people dont like to change.

 

It looks like I\'m the only Mac user on the City!

Go Macs!

And my laptop used to dual-boot OS X and Gnome (Linux), but there was a big problem I think in the way my friends set up the dual-boot, and the computer went to shit. So I had to start from scratch and install just OS X.

 

Don\'t believe everything you read on the internet. Especially from urls called \"fuck microsoft\" I mean come on, Do you honestly expect me to believe anything you say when your url is fuck microsft? don\'t be fucking rediculous.


I use XP, and Slackware Linux.

XP is for games, and then I use slackware and cinelerra to do all of my film editing shit. I would use macs, but let\'s face it. They suck. Plain and simple. Don\'t try to argue with me, I\'m right. If macs are so good, then why does the mouse have one button? It\'s obviously for people who don\'t know what the hell they\'re doing

 

I run a dule boot. One has Windows NT and the other runs Red Hat Linx. I won\'t use Windows at all but with school I need to be able to transfur filles from here to there. Megan

 

There are better free programs than the programs that microsoft puts out. They have just become the standard.

http://www.gimp.org/ is alot better than microsoft paint. It is a free download.

 

They became popular because in the 1980\'s, people thought software should be free and come with your computer. I believe they were the first company to market software.

I agree standards are good in most cases, it makes it easier since everything is the same, like all computers come with windows OS, but microsoft does have a monoply on the business. Damn bill gates for dropping out of college and making billions! If he would have stayed in, microsoft might not even be around today.

 

There are many far superior products to Microsoft, but from an IT Manager/Network Admin\'s point of view I can give you a little insight why many of those classes are geared strictly towards Microsoft products.

Most companys use MS for their client\'s OS\'s, and many many companies use Win2k Server, Server 20003, etc. to run their server platforms. So much of the business world uses Microsoft products that most colleges gear their classes to the standard.

Their security is subpar from an Admin point of view, but really that could be said about any software company. The problem with all the Windows platforms is that there are literally millions of lines of code, all written by different people. Bascially a few too many hands in the pot. To sit down and pour through all the code and bring it up to snuff, is a tremendous undertaking.

Now here\'s something interesting while we are on the topic of security.

According to a study by the British security firm mi2g, Linux is the world\'s \"most breached\" OS and is exploited more frequently than Windows. The company recently analyzed more than 235,000 successful attacks against computers that were permanently connected to the Internet during the past year and concluded that Linux was responsible for most of the successful exploits.

According to mi2g, Linux-based computers accounted for more than 65 percent of all successful electronic attacks during the past year, whereas Windows-based systems were responsible for only 25 percent. Attacks against Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)-based systems were successful less than 5 percent of the time.

It should be noted (although mi2g didn\'t) that BSD-based machines make up a small percentage of the installed base of permanently connected machines. In all probability, those machines weren\'t attacked simply because there was little incentive to do so, not because of any inherent superiority over Linux- or Windows-based systems.

 

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/11/2217255&tid=154

slahdot tread debating on the anouncement ms did:
Firefox is no threat to internet explorer.


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here are the relevant quotes :

Most people don\'t actually care. The vast majority of people simply don\'t know what a program is, what an operating system is, what a CPU is or whatever. To them, you click this little button to print, that little button to shutdown, and you click on \"Internet Explorer\" to \"Explore the internet\". That\'s why its such a great name for a web browser, and also the reason why Apple introduced a little \"Browse the Internet\" icon in MacOS 8 which launched your default browser. The real reason why Firefox is not a threat is because People Are Dumb.
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The vast majority of people simply don\'t know what a program is, what an operating system is, what a CPU is or whatever... The real reason why Firefox is not a threat is because People Are Dumb.

I\'m a programmer by trade, and I know all of these things, and I use Firefox. Am I dumb? Apparently not.

I know nothing about motor mechanics; if my car develops a fault, I take it to a garage. Am I dumb now?

I know nothing about building. If I needed an extension built, or a wall knocked through, or whatever, I\'d go to a builder. Am I dumb now?

I know nothing about teaching. I may know the subject, but I know nothing about planning and preparing lessons, setting homework, or keeping a class full of students interested and engaged. Am I dumb now?

Because by extending your reasoning to other fields, I am, and so are you, and everyone else here.

People here need to stop being so elitist, and denigrating people just because they know less about computers than some arbitrarily determined minimum level below which the person must be \"dumb\".
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If you drive your car into a tree because you don\'t know how to steer, you are dumb

If your car comes to a halt because you don\'t know to put gas in it, you are dumb.

If you cause a lot of damage to your car because you burn it out because you never replace the oil, you are dumb.

There is a certain minimal skill and intelligence level required to simply drive and maintain a car safely. Most people have it.

There is a certain minimal skill and intelligence level required to simply operate and maintain a computer safely. Most people don\'t seem to want to get it