> Balmer took over, all they care about is money and destroying competition. He does not know anything about technology, software and > could care less about the products. He has lawyers and sales people doing the programming. ME, Bob, XP, Vista is what you get. >
I recall that at a M$ conference in Long beach, CA. Balmer had given a few presentations, with his usual super-hype and dramatic fervor. Lots of energy was buzzing all around. I went to one presentation that covered networking, web servers, and NT Server. Near the end of the presentation a person asked why a recent patch to NT Workstation now limited his ability to have more than 10 concurrent connection to his machine, whereas prior to the patch he could use NT Workstation perfectly well as a web server "for testing purposes" with far more than 10 concurrent connections. The response was that M$ found NT Workstation became unstable with more than 10 connections, therefore folks wanting to host and/or test web sites would have to move to NT Server! I could not believe the smug answer, and the uproar with the crowd pretty much put an end to any further questions. It was clearly a bullshit answer, and everybody knew it. M$ was just going for a money grab, and broke a capability under the guise of preventing a perfectly stable system from "becoming unstable." I was just as surprised that the speaker's teeth did not shatter as the lie came rolling off his silver tongue. Not quite a riot came of it, but it was very obvious that the emergence of the Internet and web hosting was about to undergo a dramatic change for Micro$coff. That was my first really clear indicator of how M$ would begin to do business. The squeeze was on. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MB Software Solutions > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Vista SP1 released to manufacturing. > > > kam wrote: > > (my opinion:) When Gates was making all the decisions, it was a > great company, I remember supporting it. Ever since that lawyer > > Balmer took over, all they care about is money and destroying > competition. He does not know anything about technology, software and > > could care less about the products. He has lawyers and sales > people doing the programming. ME, Bob, XP, Vista is what you get. > > > > I remember when IBM owned the market back in the 60's, 70's and > 80's. Then they were famous for backing up the semi with copy > > machines and suing the competition. They lost their way and > almost lost the company. I wonder if we are seeing the beginning of the > > end of M$? They have a 90+% monopoly so it will take a long > time, but I'll bet Balmer and the lawyers can do it. Sad. I remember > > when they had some of the best programmers in the world. I > guess they are all gone now, at least there is no evidence they still > > exist. > > > > > > I'll agree that Ballmer is an idiot who has to go, imo. > > -- > Michael J. Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
