Leon Wright wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 06:08 pm:
Troy Tappenden wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 04:18 pm:
Fact of the matter is, only the geeks complain about Microsoft
Self professed Geek I am; but that's a fairly broad generalisation. I know many non geeks that have the same opinion.
Yes, Mostly they get that opinion from geeks. Most general users don't have the brain power to use a PC let alone form an opinion about them. They just regurgitate what they hear from other people.
Leon Wright wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 06:08 pm:
Troy Tappenden wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 04:18 pm:
Microsoft is trying to make the most user friendly environment coupled with high security, which is not an easy task, short of having every packet coming or going throw up a request to you to authorise it, and even if it did, most people wouldn't understand what is being requested and muck it up.
Have you used Vista yet??
that was pretty much what I was referring to because Microsoft have been hassled so badly lately about their security, that they now have that stupid Protection mode that asks you if you want to do what you just told it to do every 2 seconds... I have been running Windows Vista 64 Bit for about 2 months now, and I believe it is faster than XP by a long shot, and not just for gaming, but for navigating your way around. Opening the All Programs under Start is instant, opening Internet Explorer is nearly instant, search function under run is instant. I haven't found anything that is slow under Vista, and no, I am not running it on a Monster of a PC...
Leon Wright wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 06:08 pm:
Troy Tappenden wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 04:18 pm:
Servers have months of uptime
Not really something to brag about, I have worked on Linux Boxes that have 5+ years of uptime. There is not a reason in the world you should have to restart a Linux box, short of hardware failure. The fair majority of time on a windows machine you have to, the rest of the time it's considered "good practice".
We don't have the Servers go down for no reason though. We take them down for whatever reason is required, such as ILO/RILOE issues, or patching every once in a blue moon, it is extremely rare per server, and it is only usually ever a reboot from a patch, not a full shutdown. I don't believe that Microsoft Server should suffer from a reliability stigma because our uptimes may be months instead of years, when the time spent down is only the time it takes to reboot in the middle of the night when no one is using them. If they were just failing due to poor programming, then yeah, I think downtime would be an issue, but as it stands, I don't see any issue with it.
Any idiot can sit there and rebutt everything I say, but what I am saying is from experience and talking to people that know what they are talking about, not because I read in a magazine once that MS had some firewall issues and •••• like that. People need to do their own homework, and do something for themselves. We shouldn't be relying on Microsoft to make their system perfect. If you think you are going to get hacked, get a Firewall, if you keep getting virus's and Malware FFS stop going to Porn sites, and get an Antivirus Program, geeze, do you really have to depend on someone else to think for you completely? How do you make it through life like that?
I mean, I am not going to sit here and say that Microsoft is the best and we should all give in to the Monopoly, but what I am saying is that more and more people these days are getting on the bandwagon and paying out on Microsoft just because it is the cool thing to do.
For what Microsoft is, and aimed at, it is the best, which is why it is the most popular. It is like saying a Falcon should be a Ferrari. Ferrari's are the best right? they go fast, the corner hard, they look great. Problem with them is they have no boot, chew the fuel and cost a tonne. Same with Mac OS vs Windows Vs Linux and Unix, they have their purposes and are good at them.
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