The future of Windows should be open source.... yeah right
The amount of open source drivel on digg is getting nauseating. This recent article off a cnet blog, the author is clearly reading of the open source fan boy cheat sheet. Filled with assumptions about the "inferiority" of windows and the obvious "superiority" of linux (which btw 98.5% of average desktop users seem to miss).
Now i am certainly not a Microsoft apologist by any means, but these stories are just getting ridiculous. Here are my comments on the story..
"And while I know the next few iterations will cost us a cool $200 just to play around on a new GUI,"
nice assumption that vista & future windows is/are only a "new GUI" way to invalidate windows by glossing that over...
"And this talk about people buying Windows machines because they use them in the office is starting to get on my nerves too. If that's true, why is Apple gaining market share .... Windows is slowly but surely becoming a dying breed."
Well people use what they are familiar with.. apple gain in market share which is rather meager in the grand scheme is likely attributed to brand recognition via the iPod, (funny) commercials, & a very user friendly OS, all of which linux DOES NOT have...
"Right now we're entrusting an outdated bible of code to get us through the next five years without any serious security issues. I don't know about you, but that doesn't instill too much confidence in me. But if we opened the code to the public, not only would experts strengthen it, but maybe they would do away with one of the main issues with Windows: its inexorable connection to the past."
outdated bible of code, not to mention the same Linux kernel you run to day was started in 1991.. and these magical experts you speak of?? and why hasn't Microsoft hired them?? do they hate money?? Microsoft has put forward quite the effort on security and is criticized at every turn regardless of it... and you act like Microsoft supporting legacy apps is sacrilege, what about all the companies that have invested into a legacy app and need support for it?
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Now i am certainly not a Microsoft apologist by any means, but these stories are just getting ridiculous. Here are my comments on the story..
"And while I know the next few iterations will cost us a cool $200 just to play around on a new GUI,"
nice assumption that vista & future windows is/are only a "new GUI" way to invalidate windows by glossing that over...
"And this talk about people buying Windows machines because they use them in the office is starting to get on my nerves too. If that's true, why is Apple gaining market share .... Windows is slowly but surely becoming a dying breed."
Well people use what they are familiar with.. apple gain in market share which is rather meager in the grand scheme is likely attributed to brand recognition via the iPod, (funny) commercials, & a very user friendly OS, all of which linux DOES NOT have...
"Right now we're entrusting an outdated bible of code to get us through the next five years without any serious security issues. I don't know about you, but that doesn't instill too much confidence in me. But if we opened the code to the public, not only would experts strengthen it, but maybe they would do away with one of the main issues with Windows: its inexorable connection to the past."
outdated bible of code, not to mention the same Linux kernel you run to day was started in 1991.. and these magical experts you speak of?? and why hasn't Microsoft hired them?? do they hate money?? Microsoft has put forward quite the effort on security and is criticized at every turn regardless of it... and you act like Microsoft supporting legacy apps is sacrilege, what about all the companies that have invested into a legacy app and need support for it?
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