Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy 857
MacDaffy writes "Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, Michael Taylor, continues Microsoft's press blitz against Open Source in general and Linux in particular in a CNET Interview. He says of Linux: 'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'"
This is true... (Score:5, Funny)
Windows (Score:1, Funny)
So.... (Score:2, Funny)
We heard what the thinks about Windows, but what does he say about linux?
Oh, the humanity! (Score:3, Funny)
*Runs for nearest bomb shelter*
Upcoming article: Why Microsoft is the greatest!
Brittle!?!? Good lord! (Score:2, Funny)
Go on, say it... (Score:4, Funny)
Taylor: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years
You mean perpetually patch IE security flaws?
The problem begins... (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft's security "understanding" (Score:3, Funny)
Those damn port 80 and I/O issues. Such a bitch to fix.
Re:This is true... (Score:1, Funny)
In case of using IE, break Windows.
In case of using Outlook Express, break windows.
In case of buying a new graphics card, break windows.
In case of using it for a couple months, break windows.
Re:This is true... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is true... (Score:2, Funny)
Note: Not meant to imply that parent poster is throwing rocks while in a glasshouse, but to make a cheap pun.
Simple... (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft: Which cleaners would you like to be taken to today?
Re:Compared to? (Score:2, Funny)
I know you were trying to be funny, but this is FUD. I have been running 2000 on many of my servers for a year now and it's never broken. Windows NT and 98, on the other hand, are a different story. Windows 2000 is actually very stable.
Before 2000:
I know you were trying to be funny, but this is FUD. I have been running NT 4.0 on many of my servers for a year now and it's never broken. Windows NT 3.51 and 95, on the other hand, are a different story. Windows Nt 4.0 is actually very stable. and so on..
Re:This is true... (Score:5, Funny)
Like THAT will ever happen. Everyone knows that the moon is made of yellow cheese [google.com]...
Re:This is true... (Score:3, Funny)
Tippety-tap, tippety-tap
Re:This is true... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that depends on your definition of the word "is".
Anti-OS Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
In case of using IE, break Windows.
In case of using Outlook Express, break windows.
In case of buying a new graphics card, break windows.
In case of using it for a couple months, break windows.
Heh.. the title of the article should have been: "Microsoft Continues Anti-OS Strategy"
Re:This is true... (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno. I think he gave a most cromulent answer...
Re:Oh please (Score:2, Funny)
This article is ridiculous flamebait. Anyone who is a Decision Maker, recognizes the usefullness of both Operating Systems.
Wishful thinking. If Decision Makers were so enlightened, why are there bad decisions?
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Re:Joel on software (Score:1, Funny)
Well, I'll bet you would have had no trouble with
what wifi card before you got into the PhD
program.
By the time you finish, you will be unable to determine for certain whether something is or
is not a computer.