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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Xeen on 24 November 2003, 21:17

Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: Xeen on 24 November 2003, 21:17
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 (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.
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: M51DPS on 24 November 2003, 23:07
What scary, deluded people.

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

Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: jtpenrod on 25 November 2003, 11:33
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The latest Windows-related effort here is an informative and amusing book by Steve Bass called "PC Annoyances
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: Pikachu on 1 December 2003, 20:45
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....
  ;)
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: Calum on 2 December 2003, 04:46
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!
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: WMD on 3 December 2003, 00:14
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?  (http://tongue.gif)   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:   :D
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: xyle_one on 3 December 2003, 00:49
quote:
Originally posted by WMD:


Hotmail DOES NOT run FreeBSD anymore...were've you been the past few years?   (http://tongue.gif)    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:     :D  

From what I understand, the guts of hotmail run on BSD, and the frontend is hosted on win2k server.
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: WMD on 3 December 2003, 00:59
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:
Title: People thank Microsoft for its crappiness
Post by: xyle_one on 3 December 2003, 01:03
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 ]