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Re: [Opinion] How annoyed am I at Microsoft? Let me count the ways...

  • Subject: Re: [Opinion] How annoyed am I at Microsoft? Let me count the ways...
  • From: Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:45:49 +0100
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High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday:
>>> Dusty Hendrix wrote:
>>>> "The Ghost In The Machine" wrote...
>>>>
>>>>> A rant, indeed a rant.
>>>>
>>>> Yet another COLA bozo who makes his living writing
>>>> proprietary Microsoft software but then complains how evil
>>>> Windows is.
>>>
>>> OK, so you're on record as not liking alternatives, then?
>>>
>>> Good.
>>>
>>> Let me know when Microsoft puts Symbian out of business. Last I
>>> heard Symbian has about 70% of the mobile OS market.
>>
>> That is correct. Microsoft is good at PR, so it was successful
>> at pretending that desktop PCs /WERE/ the computer. Should it
>> not matter that there are several billions of smart phones
>> (miniature PCs) out there? Microsoft is very,very good at PR
>> (poker face). It manages to convinced people that only an O/S
>> (even for phones) with "Shutdown" under some "Start" menu at
>> the bottom-left corner of the display is the 'standard'-- the
>> only standard which is 'user friendly' (read: like Windows).
>> But guess what? After about 10 years in the field and huge
>> spending (losses too, which they hid by combining divisions),
>> Microsoft has only 6% market share in this area.
>
> Future is in virtualisation and thin clients.  It is easier to manage
> a handful of "terminal servers" serving thin clients instead of a slew
> of thick clients.

For who? Not for joe soap at home. They dont want their private shit
being mangled by dorks like you. They want to pay videos, games, audio
etc. They want a thick client. YOu seem to think this "networking" for
centralised resources is some sort of new thing. Err, it's not.

>
> In April last year, Microsoft did an "about face" and now is working
> to support thin clients, albeit at roughly twice the cost of their
> thick client licenses.  They are not yet supporting per user license.
> (One has 1,000 machines but only 500 users must pay 1,000 licenses,
> not 500.)
>
> There are merits in this as the servers maintain the software, an
> upgrade to a server upgrades all thin clients.  Also having software
> managed at server level has better control over viruses, trojans, root
> kits, etc.  Server can't be back doored or "bypassed" through an
> infected thick client, since thin client is essentially a terminal.
> Backups are simplified since they are done as server level.  It is
> inherently easier to backup user files.

I have never worked on a SW project where the compiling/build
environments were stored on the local machine. Sure some check outs
could be, but generally we worked on the network - for obvious reasons
(which you feel the need to describe (wrongly) at length).

Your total lack of knowledge here is shocking. What "thin clients" are
you talking about? HTML? What? Java? AJAX? What?

>
> This is where Linux shines.  With Linux running an alternative to
> Windows API's to run software applications negates the need for the
> Windows operating system.  Vista is the best thing that ever happened
> to Linux.

And yet Mono is being actively developed. And who are they copying? Yup
.... And guess what? MS make servers too. In fact MS servers are
currently displacing Linux servers. But you knew that.

>
>>> Microsoft.  Where did you want to go today?
>
> I still remember Corel Linux showing, "Where do you want to go
> tomorrow?" when mouse was hovered over the "Start" button.  :-)

Linonut'esque in it's unfunniness.

>
>> Anywhere which is warmer. Scottt Douglas lives in Canada and I
>> think that the cold weather prevents blood from reaching all
>> of his brain cells.
>
> As Microsoft and some major software houses with heavy Microsoft ties
> will not want "food taken off their plate" (AKA maintain the
> monopoly), the FUD campaigns against Linux and other alternative
> operating systems will continue.

What FUD campaign?

>
> Best form of freedom is for people to simply try Linux and other FOSS
> software out, judge for themselves.

Well, its out there. Its free. So what's stopping them. Oh yes. You and
your kind scare them off.

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