I’m love working with technology, I love working with computers, I have friends who do the same and I try and meet as many people as I can who follow technology, but it seems that everytime a couple of technology enthusiasts get together, The topic of Microsofts Dominace always comes up (it seems to be coming round to google a bit more now but lets talk about the big M for now), Theres always some people who love linux, mac, BSD, won’t touch windows with a barge pole and generally hate everything that Microsoft does. Thats fair enough, everyones entilted to there point of view, sometimes I’d wish you’d shut up about it and not drag it into every conversation about a website we have but I can put up with that).
What really pisses me off and I mean REALLY, are the people that go to work, use Microsoft Office on Windows and browse the internet on that big blue E, then go home and use Microsoft Office on Windows and browse the internet on that big blue E…. without trying anything different, because “linux is too geeky” or “open office doesnt have the features I need” or “firefox just doesnt work with the websites I want”. THEN they procceed to completely go on this “I HATE MICROSOFT and WINDOWS crap” these people seem to be the most vocal crowd in the conference’s.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t love Microsoft, Vista has failed especially at our workplace where every ten minutes it resets file permissions for someone or UAC pisses someone off, IE5.5 still has wayyyyy too big of a market share and don’t even get me started on the Zune, I love certain parts of office 2007 and hate other parts and I think Microsoft has advanced computing a lot and we wouldn’t be were we are today without them (apart from I.E.) they won the browser war and left that project to rot until firefox got some decent market share.
So the bottom line is, I don’t mind people bashing Microsoft, but try the competition and don’t be a hypocrite.
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