Microsoft's Master Plan

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by fett101:


Those poor souls.

     

Thats odd, but thats is not an exact quote. I actually said

 

quote: a lot of people still use windows 9x/Me

My point is that MS is hurting their own customers.

[Fett101]

Yes, I know. I was just feeling sorry for those people using ME.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by fett101:
Yes, I know. I was just feeling sorry for those people using ME.

Just as I feel sorry for those people who use *any* M$ operating system. Mostly for those who are locked in. Glad I'm not one of them.

[hm_murdock]

like I used to be? I was one of the brainwashed for several years, until I realised I hated MS. then I started looking for ways out, but always came back to windoze, because it just worked better for me, but that was back in the days of Red Hat 5, when Linux still sucked on the desktop.

But then, I went Mac and became MS free (have office installed, but don't use it unless I really have to), and now I wanna get back into Linux, because it's cooler than OS X in some ways.

Open Source fits my philosophy!

[voidmain]

Yeah, I don't have any huge complaints with Apple and especially with OSX, especially since I don't have much experience with either. But I don't personally have any compelling reason to go that route when I have an OS that fits my needs and philosophies perfectly. And the price is right. I think being Open means more to me than any other single factor, functionality second, price is third.  

With OSX part of the system is open but most is not. The biggest reason I haven't used it is because of being tied to a single architecture. Apple doesn't appear to have the evil world domination intentions that Microsoft has so there is no reason to dislike them. And as long as their goal is to be "better" and not be a "commodity" then their prices will have to remain higher in order to be "better".

Nothing wrong with that. But for me I need a combination of the two. I need something that is "better" at "commodity" prices because of the large number of machines I work with. I think Linux comes very close to giving me that.

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
Of course, if you guys knew how the Microsoft OS life cycle works you would know that Win9x is almost at the end of it's supported life.

This isn't a bad thing...really it isn't. Win9x needs to die. NT is so much better and is the future of MS OSes(which will continue to be the most widely used OSes ;P). With MS only programming for one kernel thier products will start to get better and better(will be more reliable/stable, more secure, will be more feature rich and will perform better). Office 11 has a long time to go before it goes gold and by time it goes gold the Win9x supported life cycle will be almost over.

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

There is a difference between supporting an OS and doing extra work to hack up your products so that they will not install or run on it.  

As for whether 9x should be dying, that should be up to the USER, not MS.  And you also will note that they will deliberately exclude NT 4 as well!  

This is exactly why Jackson's breakup order was an appropriate solution.  You don't see Corel or IBM hacking their office products so that they won't run on 9x or Me.  MS does, because it is leveraging its office monopoly to sell more units of OS.

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Pissed_Macman]

Zombie, why do you still have that same animation you got at my website in your signature? That stopped being funny months ago.

[Zombie9920]

I didn't get that image from your site. Come to think of it, I had that sig way before you were even registered here. Perhaps maybe you stole it from me and put it on your piece of crap site after seeing it in my sig. ;P

I don't give a fuck if it is funny or not, it is meant to bother people(which obviously it works since it bugs you). Besides, I don't really want to waste my time coming up with a new sig.

[voidmain]

What image?  

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
What image?    

The image that you probably have blocked.  :rolleyes:

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:


The image that you probably have blocked.   :rolleyes:  

Not probably, definitely.

[HibbeeBoy]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
Of course, if you guys knew how the Microsoft OS life cycle works you would know that Win9x is almost at the end of it's supported life.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/desktop/business/components.mspx

This isn't a bad thing...really it isn't. Win9x needs to die. NT is so much better and is the future of MS OSes(which will continue to be the most widely used OSes ;P). With MS only programming for one kernel thier products will start to get better and better(will be more reliable/stable, more secure, will be more feature rich and will perform better). Office 11 has a long time to go before it goes gold and by time it goes gold the Win9x supported life cycle will be almost over.

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

WHATALOADYPISH. "More secure" oh yes, that's a feature I would like alright. me to M$ sales rep "Is Windows Secure ?" M$ rep replies "No, it's more secure than the last time though."  

[Calum]

microsoft's whining about how it's impossible to get anything perfect are embarrassing to them as more and more people realise that security is something that users of certain other systems take for granted. as the whole 'people only do windows exploits because it's popular' myth gets blown to bits (give it 2 years), i hink microsoft will be in the shit. Of course they'll have evolved to the next angle or spin by then...