Please don't top post on the debian-users mailing list On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 07:33:52PM +0300, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey Chris, > > It doesn't matter if some would like them to just vanish. > They do commit to the client but the scale of things might not be understood > by all in the same level\manner. > MS doesn't and cannot commit to software maintenance in certain levels. > I do not know how much money they have and indeed if they are committed to > PROFIT only with nothing else it would make them something else then what > they are.
I do know that: 1) They have (had?) a considerable amount of money put aside for lawsuits against their business practices and their borg like behaviour to small business where they liked a product of theirs. 2) A story I heard when Windows 95 was launched was they asked REM if they could use their song 'Man On The Moon' but REM told them to shove it in no uncertain terms, so they asked The Rolling Stones if they could use their song "Start Me Up" and they said sure, for some exhorbitant price, and apparently Microsoft didn't batter an eye, and just said sure. although this link: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2220097/data-center/what-microsoft-paid-the-stones-to-help-launch-windows-95.html seems to suggest it was way less than the amount I heard it was. There was also some web pages written by an (ex?) employee of MS on why he hated MS, (unfortunately, they seemed to buried in the huge number of search results.) which were very interesting, there was about 9 pages altogether, each one on a specific area. One in particular was about the shoddy code. I wish I still had the link. :( But the main thing I dislike about the MS OS, is the 'reverse logic' they use in their menu selections and dialog boxes --- who knows it may have been improved by now, but I've since moved on and have no real urge to try it again. (once bitten twice shy, etc.) I recently had a friend come round to use my wifi because her Windows 8.1 laptop, for some reason no longer thought that she was the owner of it and had shut her out, she had to go through a laborious session of sending emails and typing in codes she rec on her cell phone into boxes on the laptop, and believe me; she was getting p***ed off fast. I actually started to feel sorry for her when the dialog box was asking for the six character code, but she had been only sent a four character code. I mean how ridiculous is that? (considering she'd paid good money for it.) Nope, I steer clear of MS as much as possible, and just about any time I've had to use it, I feel mentally drained and frustrated. At least if a problem crops up in Linux, there's enough reasonable documentation around so that you can troubleshoot your way through it without pulling your hair out in the process. P.S. I wonder if that is why Linux users tend to be hairy and MS users tend to bald? :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
