ZDNet: Ztoopid Digressions
By glazou on Monday 16 May 2005, 20:40 - Microsoftisms - Permalink
This article contains a ridiculous assertion about Microsoft: "(RedHat) is a company, remember, that wants to be Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling other people’s ideas". This is not journalism, this is pure crap. You can call Microsoft an unethical player but you cannot say Microsoft does not invent and does not innovate. It's also pure crap because RedHat does a lot, also innovates and does not want to be Microsoft.
ZDNet should care about its own carpet and clean it a little bit; I mean they should fire Paul Murphy, the quote's author. Not a big loss for online journalism.
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D'accord. Mais inutile de s'énerver. Plus con… tu meurs.
What a joke! Micrososft innovate. Microsoft copied its entire interface almost exactly from Apple and now they are copying them again for their yet to be released who's know when next virus OS. They can't even copy well. I used Microshit for 6 years and my art looked like crap compared to what I can do with the Mac plus I constantly worried about losing all of it to disk corruption, a virus, hackers deleting it, or the like. I don't have to worry about any of this on my Mac. I had to re-install Windows 95 10 times in my effort to get it to work and out of frustration even switched to Linux in 1999 and created better art than I did with Windows and at least I knew my computer would survive the millenium in tact. I was able to do a major OS upgrade (10.2-10.3) on my Mac with out having to reformat and everything worked flawlessly plus it was much faster. The most frustrating part is how slow Windows runs and the cheapo components you get in the budget ones. My Mac is lightening fast - much more expensive PCs running the latest version of Windows are much slower than mine.
Benjamin: The part where Microsoft innovated was indeed after 1999
But IMHO, with the switch to the NT kernel and filesystem they really made a big step forward.
Apple made its most innovative ideas after 1999 too but these were innovations not sloppy attempts at copying UNIX and only making it marginally better than their previous product on the part of Microsoft. Apple started from scratch and embraced open source and open standards - Microsoft just tries to corrupt the standards and make cheap nock offs of other products. NT is not something MS even did by itself as it had to have IBM help them. NT still has no security whatsoever as MS admits, so if there are any innovations they aren't very useful ones with the quality being so low in the code.
Benjamin Huot: I suggest you stop ranting without knowing. I have been seeing Microsoft representatives in the W3C innovate and propose new stuff for _nine years_ now. I saw what MSFT did with InfoPath. When you say "Apple (...) embraced open source and open standards", again, you don't know what you're talking about.
Benjamin Huot : I didn't know one OS or another could make your "art" gorgeous or crappy... That's a good one.
Benjamin: Macs are fast at certain tasks, while PC's running Windows or Linux are clear winners in other areas. For example, if you happen to develop software that requires compiling, the Mac is stupendously slow. You pay twice as much for Mac (compared to PC), and get half the performance, when compiling code.
Your tools do limit what you can do. Many pieces of software that I use now are only available for Macs. I probably could get something that was much harder to use and costs much more but my time is worth something.
Well if Microsoft is so driven by standards compliance why don't they support the whole CSS standard when they claim they do. I can verify that by pages that are designed according to standards but don't work in Internet Explorer. Why are they trying to copyright "their" version of XML for Office. Why do they only support a single XML file format for a non-formatted version of Office 2003? Why do they allow custom XML formats to be created with Word. The only thing that unites Microsoft's vision is making their products as incompatible and hide behind incompatible versions of "open standards".
Yes Apple embraced Open Source. That is why they released the core to their OS known as Darwin as open source. That is why they use XML extensively for file formats (one format with all the formatting). That is why they have a version of X-Windows that ships with 10.3 and higher. That is why they used KHTML for Safari. That is why they have used the open source Rendezvous, now called Bonjour for networking. Those are just a few of the Open Source Apple supports. Yes, Microsoft has released some of their code under a shared source in their licensing, but that is not the same as open source.
I agree that Linux is better at networking, programming, and databases than OS X is out of the box. Linux and Windows are two completely different things. I have respect for Linux whereas I have none for Microsoft. But I have 6 years of experience with Windows and it was never fast at anything. Maybe for a split second but not conistently fast and it crashed all the time especially when I had Microsoft Office on it. And yes I know people who have XP and have seen them at their computers and worked on them and although they cost much more than mine they are not fast in any regard. They ask for my help in fixing them all the time. My mom has an eMac and I never had to fix anything to do with anything made by Apple on her machine. My Mac has not crashed in over a year - I install anything I want to on it - never had a virus, lost any data, or had my computer slow down. My Mac is lightening fast all the time. 700mhz Mac compared to 2ghz AMD PCs that were much slower (both with 1 GB of RAM).
I guess other people have had better experiences with Windows than I did. Good luck, then, I hope they continue that way.