I have to shoot you down.. mostly because I'm bored and this is better than doing my house work.
-Bad security (file system permissions mainly)
File permissions are fine, its not a multi user system, its single and if you want to keep your porn out of sight from your wife then learn to burn it to DVD and not hide it in a folder on your computer
-Enforced and unneccesary hardware upgrades just so the OS can munch all the extra power. (And im not talking about 'progress' upgrades)
I dont agree at all, does it hog tons of system resources, yeah a little, but for good reason. it supports an almost infinate amount of hardware anything new that hits the shelf and to manage all of that takes processor time.
And before you go barking Linux at me, compare what both support at install and then think about it for a bit.
-Horrendous past in buisness ethics.
What's Its business, not playtime, if your talking about how Bill bought a Dos OS, and then turned it into something the world used for years, how is that bad, if your talking about how he saw his first UI and then did what he could to do his own and make it the best, then again how is that bad ? Nothing he has done has not also been done by every other major player in the world. so why just single them out ?
-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
OSX has to deal with one set of hardware, a very limited set of hardware that is certified by Apple. this as a result free's up a lot of stuff the OS no longer needs to deal with. Allowing it to do more.
Linux on the other hand is primarily driven by the open source community contribution network, and can never rival what Windows can do, is it amazing, yes it is, is it extreamly stable yes, it is.
the problem is that its not very user friendly, and its sleack kernels and patch's that can bring a full system to its knee's don't help either, nor does that fact that its support is only ever 3rd party, add to this the huge gap in general hardware support between windows and linux and its clear why linux isnt much of a threat.
-Extremely bloated kernel, unneccasary memory use, average performance and extremely patronizing stupidities.
All of this due to the huge amounts of effort they have put into the os to make it as user friendly and safe to use as they possibly can, they cant make it 100% free of bugs, that's being naive, but its a hell of a lot more stable in the hands of average joe from down the street than Nix.
-The slow and progressive clampdown on software freedom
don't you mean software piracy ? - I have to admit, being some one who has downloaded the odd movie or the odd bit of software this one annoys me as well. but you cant fault them for wanting people to pay for what they use.
-Not to mention the price
ARGGGG - I wish I could come up with some thing here but I cant, and I have to agree, the price of Vista in the US is like a 3rd the price it is for us the UK.
To add my own comments to the end here, was it because MS were in the right place at the right time ? of course it was, but that's not how they managed to stay at the top, no one no matter how much money they have can stay in the number one software and os market for long if the product they are selling is poor under par or faulty, the customer's that matter, the business users simply wouldn't buy it. but they do, there are still more windows based servers hosting websites around the world than there are Linux, that's a fact.
To answer your question about what My background is or has been.
At one stage in my life I was, lets say interested in how operating systems worked. and how software worked.
This is what I used to run, and no, not a five second install.
1 Windows NT
1 Windows ME
1 Windows XP
1 Ubuntu / Slackware - duel boot
1 Redhat Server
Running through an old IBM Switch which I no longer have, I actually now only have
1 Windows XP
1 Ubuntu
1 Test Machine with some VM booting OS's on it.
Saves a lot of space.
Microsft isnt crap, and their security over the past few years has improved by miles, and they continue to make their product better every day, as do the other operating systems.
I am in no way an MS fanBoi, in fact I used to enjoy nothing more than picking them appart, but at some point, by doing that you come to understand why its as big as it is, and how it supports everything it does and why they have done what they have done.
Anyway. I think I just prattled on way to much for a post that was initially suppost to be just a jokingly prod at you, so I apologise for that, I tend to get away from the point some times.
My 2cent's
-Bad security (file system permissions mainly)
File permissions are fine, its not a multi user system, its single and if you want to keep your porn out of sight from your wife then learn to burn it to DVD and not hide it in a folder on your computer
-Enforced and unneccesary hardware upgrades just so the OS can munch all the extra power. (And im not talking about 'progress' upgrades)
I dont agree at all, does it hog tons of system resources, yeah a little, but for good reason. it supports an almost infinate amount of hardware anything new that hits the shelf and to manage all of that takes processor time.
And before you go barking Linux at me, compare what both support at install and then think about it for a bit.
-Horrendous past in buisness ethics.
What's Its business, not playtime, if your talking about how Bill bought a Dos OS, and then turned it into something the world used for years, how is that bad, if your talking about how he saw his first UI and then did what he could to do his own and make it the best, then again how is that bad ? Nothing he has done has not also been done by every other major player in the world. so why just single them out ?
-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
OSX has to deal with one set of hardware, a very limited set of hardware that is certified by Apple. this as a result free's up a lot of stuff the OS no longer needs to deal with. Allowing it to do more.
Linux on the other hand is primarily driven by the open source community contribution network, and can never rival what Windows can do, is it amazing, yes it is, is it extreamly stable yes, it is.
the problem is that its not very user friendly, and its sleack kernels and patch's that can bring a full system to its knee's don't help either, nor does that fact that its support is only ever 3rd party, add to this the huge gap in general hardware support between windows and linux and its clear why linux isnt much of a threat.
-Extremely bloated kernel, unneccasary memory use, average performance and extremely patronizing stupidities.
All of this due to the huge amounts of effort they have put into the os to make it as user friendly and safe to use as they possibly can, they cant make it 100% free of bugs, that's being naive, but its a hell of a lot more stable in the hands of average joe from down the street than Nix.
-The slow and progressive clampdown on software freedom
don't you mean software piracy ? - I have to admit, being some one who has downloaded the odd movie or the odd bit of software this one annoys me as well. but you cant fault them for wanting people to pay for what they use.
-Not to mention the price
ARGGGG - I wish I could come up with some thing here but I cant, and I have to agree, the price of Vista in the US is like a 3rd the price it is for us the UK.
To add my own comments to the end here, was it because MS were in the right place at the right time ? of course it was, but that's not how they managed to stay at the top, no one no matter how much money they have can stay in the number one software and os market for long if the product they are selling is poor under par or faulty, the customer's that matter, the business users simply wouldn't buy it. but they do, there are still more windows based servers hosting websites around the world than there are Linux, that's a fact.
To answer your question about what My background is or has been.
At one stage in my life I was, lets say interested in how operating systems worked. and how software worked.
This is what I used to run, and no, not a five second install.
1 Windows NT
1 Windows ME
1 Windows XP
1 Ubuntu / Slackware - duel boot
1 Redhat Server
Running through an old IBM Switch which I no longer have, I actually now only have
1 Windows XP
1 Ubuntu
1 Test Machine with some VM booting OS's on it.
Saves a lot of space.
Microsft isnt crap, and their security over the past few years has improved by miles, and they continue to make their product better every day, as do the other operating systems.
I am in no way an MS fanBoi, in fact I used to enjoy nothing more than picking them appart, but at some point, by doing that you come to understand why its as big as it is, and how it supports everything it does and why they have done what they have done.
Anyway. I think I just prattled on way to much for a post that was initially suppost to be just a jokingly prod at you, so I apologise for that, I tend to get away from the point some times.
My 2cent's