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Author: BearBear Date: Jul 22, 2008 16:55
> Bear gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I loathe M$ rubbish with a passion.
>>
>> It's not rubbish, if you know how to use it correctly.
>
> Not to be rude, I've had this converstaion so many times that if
> you don't mind I'll bow out for the time being;
Not a problem. Enjoy :)
> I just couldn't let
> the trumpeting of M$'s 'virtues' pass unchallenged.
I wasn't "trumpeting" anything.
It's just an OS. And some apps.
It works fine.
If you don't know what you're doing, or are terminally stupid and
unprepared to learn, you'll get burned. Same as with Apple stuff, or
OpenSource, or Unix, or whatever.
I just don't understand otherwise intelligent people hating MS just
because it's successful. If Apple had taken less than a decade to
produce a half decent OS, and not tried the old Sony trick of tying apps
developers into a restrictive cycle that only they would license, to
increase profits, then maybe they'd have won out. But they didn't.
If OpenSource had realised that not everyone wants to be, or indeed is
even capable of being, a techie, just in order to run a browser and some
simple apps, then maybe they'd have won out.
But they didn't.
I don't use MS because I *like* it, I use because it works. Simply and,
for the most part, efficiently.
When something else comes along that's genuinely better, instead of just
emperor's new clothes, then I'll use that instead.
--
Bear
2002 Yamaha R1
Saab Aero Sport
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