Re: FN-FORUM: Vista

date posted 4th March 2008 17:52

a wrote:
> Funny! I just got it on my new pc today so tearing my hair out so far.
> How lovely!
>
> May I ask you guys why exactly techies don't like Microsoft, I don't like
> them myself, but got asked the other day why - and I don't know why, I just
> hear techies slagging em off!
>
>
>
In fairness, (and like I kind of implied) I don't hate Microsoft - I use
their OS all day every day.

What I *do* object to is them releasing an OS that is really a beta
version, and still has more bugs than a mosquito swarm, and then getting
people to pay for the "priviledge" of using it. But I'd object to that
in *any* software manufacturer who doesn't announce their software as
Beta when it is.

I also don't like the tie-in that was enforced between the OS and IE -
but now that's been reduced, it's not so bad.

And then open-source software helps reduce the level of Microsoft tie-in
that's necessary - I get to use OpenOffice instead of MSOffice, Firefox
instead of IE, Thunderbird instead of Outlook, so on and so forth.

I'm not rabidly anti-MS, I just don't like a lot of their practices. But
I still use their OS and the like.

Me.