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retarded artical from ZDnet

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Laukev7:
I think the author meant that Microsoft brought the personal computer to the public with their massive marketing. Which is false, because the massive adoption of Windows was due to Microsoft forcing OEMs to bundle their OS with their computers and disallowing any competition.

The author also suggests that Microsoft's bullying tactics helped bring computers to the masses, which is absurd because the OEMs would have produced the computers anyway and put another OS (such as DR-DOS with GEM, OS/2 or BeOS).

Canadian Lover:

quote:

from this  artical

I know the spams gonna fly, but Thanks to MS and windows dominance, windows has dictated a standard, and because of that, we have far less fragmentation. How many damn flavors of Unix are there, and why cant I simply migrate my DB easily from one to the other. I mean Unix is Unix isnt it? NOT.
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The only standard Windiws set is rebooting 10 times a day. "Far less fragmentation" how about the blue screen of death is says something like
"windows caused an error in kernal 56 and will reboot." dose that make any sence? There are LOTS of flavers of Unix.

[ June 30, 2003: Message edited by: The all Microsoft hater ]

Laukev7:
Windows is not a standard; it's a single product coming from a single vendor (i.e. a monopoly). A standard is a set of specifications agreed upon by developpers to make their products compatible. A standard has to be open and transparent to the developpers; all of the specifications have to be documented. POSIX is a standard; Windows is not, it's a single product.

jtpenrod:
All I have to say about Mr. John Carroll is :WHUDDA MAROON!!
I especially liked this one:
quote: 8. Microsoft employees absolutely love  their company
Microsoft regularly is ranked one of the best places to work. Programmers are respected, and creativity is encouraged.
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Well, Ballmer does. Creativity is encouraged?(!) Remember: when His Gatesness was having Windows 95 developed, he was constantly telling his developers to make it look more like the Mac. How is that encourageing creativity?  :rolleyes:
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jasonlane:
This has to be one of the worst, most missguided articles I've ever had the displeasure of reading. What an idiot.  :mad:

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