Nothing to do with them making tons of products we use every day. Many companies make products we use every day and no one has an issue with them.
Im not in the minority (out of people who have an issue with MS) Ask and they will usually have a more intelligent answer than "well, they own everything dont they"
It does however have to do with:
-Bad security (file system permissions mainly)
-Enforced and unneccesary hardware upgrades just so the OS can munch all the extra power. (And im not talking about 'progress' upgrades)
-Horrendous past in buisness ethics.
-They were late with vista. OSX already does most of the new 'WOWs' and gnome on linux offered some cool things that XP did'nt
-Extremely bloated kernel, unneccasary memory use, average performance and extremely patronizing stupidities.
-The slow and progressive clampdown on software freedom
-Not to mention the price
The only reason MS has the power isnt because of great software, its because they were in the right place at the right time to secure their future (im refering to bill gates BUYING an operating system(DOS) for next to nothing off an associate (mabe even a friend?) and then selling it to IBM with continued licence ownership (Genius!) and raking in the billions. Now, its those billions and the coverage gained that give them the power, nothing else.
That is why they can now dictate to everyone, as everyone has become reliant on it, like a addict to heroin. I still dual boot windows XP and am happy with it; for games and B3d which at the moment, to me, is all it is good for. For everything else 'PC' i boot elsewhere.
So, answer flameducks Q and say what your point of reference is? Have you even tried any others for more than...
A quick install, say 'thats crap because i dont know what to do' and then uninstall?
Im not in the minority (out of people who have an issue with MS) Ask and they will usually have a more intelligent answer than "well, they own everything dont they"
It does however have to do with:
-Bad security (file system permissions mainly)
-Enforced and unneccesary hardware upgrades just so the OS can munch all the extra power. (And im not talking about 'progress' upgrades)
-Horrendous past in buisness ethics.
-They were late with vista. OSX already does most of the new 'WOWs' and gnome on linux offered some cool things that XP did'nt
-Extremely bloated kernel, unneccasary memory use, average performance and extremely patronizing stupidities.
-The slow and progressive clampdown on software freedom
-Not to mention the price
The only reason MS has the power isnt because of great software, its because they were in the right place at the right time to secure their future (im refering to bill gates BUYING an operating system(DOS) for next to nothing off an associate (mabe even a friend?) and then selling it to IBM with continued licence ownership (Genius!) and raking in the billions. Now, its those billions and the coverage gained that give them the power, nothing else.
That is why they can now dictate to everyone, as everyone has become reliant on it, like a addict to heroin. I still dual boot windows XP and am happy with it; for games and B3d which at the moment, to me, is all it is good for. For everything else 'PC' i boot elsewhere.
So, answer flameducks Q and say what your point of reference is? Have you even tried any others for more than...
A quick install, say 'thats crap because i dont know what to do' and then uninstall?