People thank Microsoft for its crappiness

[Xeen]

Some are claiming that Microsoft and Bill Gates deserve lots of thanks for creating such crappy products because all Windows bugs, how-to-fix books, tech support, etc all help the economy in major ways.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=3&u=/ap/20031124/ap_on_hi_te/fea_hobbies_compubug_windows_annoyances&sid=95573712

Truly sad, if you ask me.

[M51DPS]

What scary, deluded people.

[ November 24, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

[jtpenrod]

quote:
The latest Windows-related effort here is an informative and amusing book by Steve Bass called "PC Annoyances

[Pikachu]

This just illustrates the fact that even if you hate M$, as I do vehemently, you still can capitalize on their shitty products. Let's all just hope the desktop end of publishing that book was done on a Linux box or a Mac....
 

[Calum]

like the fact that hotmail still runs off of freeBSD servers 6 years after microsoft originally bought it? imagine, they can't even run their own servers on mswindows, even given a six yearrunning start!

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
like the fact that hotmail still runs off of freeBSD servers 6 years after microsoft originally bought it? imagine, they can't even run their own servers on mswindows, even given a six yearrunning start!

Hotmail DOES NOT run FreeBSD anymore...were've you been the past few years?     Hotmail has been running Win2k Advanced Server for quite a while now.

As for the article, I once told someone exactly this as a joke.  :eek:  

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:


Hotmail DOES NOT run FreeBSD anymore...were've you been the past few years?      Hotmail has been running Win2k Advanced Server for quite a while now.

As for the article, I once told someone exactly this as a joke.   :eek:      

From what I understand, the guts of hotmail run on BSD, and the frontend is hosted on win2k server.

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by Ecsyle:

From what I understand, the guts of hotmail run on BSD, and the frontend is hosted on win2k server.

That was absolutely correct - about a year ago.  The entire backbone runs Win2k now.  :eek:

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:


That was absolutely correct - about a year ago.  The entire backbone runs Win2k now.    :eek:  

Well holy shit. Looks like i need to keep up on current MS news  

[ December 02, 2003: Message edited by: Ecsyle ]