Why hate microsoft?

[cool dude]

Just wondering why does everybody hate microsoft so much?

[rdrake]

Gave me a lot of problems. Decided to stop booting for the second time. Off to Linux I went.

Some people hate its closed nature, and others are just frustrated with it. Everybody has their reasons, those are just mine in a nutshell.

[cool dude]

wat kinda problems does it give u?

[md]

cartoon_shark wrote:

Gave me a lot of problems. Decided to stop booting for the second time. Off to Linux I went.

Microsoft did nothing of the sort, though windows might have. Usually people dislike Mircosoft for ideological reasons, or because they are fed up with their medeocre products.

[Cervantes]

I dislike Microsoft because the guy next to me dislikes Microsoft.

In all seriousness, though, I do like Excel. I find it to be much better than OpenOffice.org's Spreadsheet, though perhaps that's just because almost all the time I've spent on OOo's Spreadsheet was using an older version( 1.1 ).

[rdrake]

Cornflake wrote:

cartoon_shark wrote:

Gave me a lot of problems. Decided to stop booting for the second time. Off to Linux I went.

Microsoft did nothing of the sort, though windows might have. Usually people dislike Mircosoft for ideological reasons, or because they are fed up with their medeocre products.

Microsoft produces the product that gives me nothing but trouble. This is why I sald Microsoft.

[Boo-chan]

"Its a poor tradesman who blames his tools."

I like windows since it usually works for me and the rest of the time I enjoy beating it into submission when it doesn't.

[cool dude]

all i'm getting is the software is bad, tiring, and screws up. i use microsoft and i don't have that trouble so i don't really know why to hate microsoft. besides office is pretty useful for work!

[Geminias]

you wanna know why i hate microsoft?

I bought a Windows XP Home Edition back in the day. Bought it. Key word: "BOUGHT".

I tried to install it on two different computers that I "BOUGHT" also. Of course due to microsoft's wpa check I was only allowed to put my windows XP on one computer.

Then, when I got a new computer, better than both the other two, I tried to put it on my new computer. "Unable to activate windows" 30 days later I'm locked out of my OWN computer.

In other words, microsoft expects people to buy one of its products for each computer you own, if you get a new one, add the cost of the computer plus 250$ for microsoft windows when you could be buying a better graphics card or setting up a RAID configuration.

The richest corporation in the world is also the most savage.

(Note: Microsoft doesn't take advantage of me anymore, I have ways of dealing with Microsoft's lameness now. Email me if Microsoft gives you any trouble)

[Geminias]

also Microsoft has a reputation for steaing intellectual property, and screwing decent people out of their own inventions by beating them to the patent office.

[md]

Geminias wrote:

you wanna know why i hate microsoft?

I bought a Windows XP Home Edition back in the day. Bought it. Key word: "BOUGHT".

I tried to install it on two different computers that I "BOUGHT" also. Of course due to microsoft's wpa check I was only allowed to put my windows XP on one computer.

Then, when I got a new computer, better than both the other two, I tried to put it on my new computer. "Unable to activate windows" 30 days later I'm locked out of my OWN computer.

In other words, microsoft expects people to buy one of its products for each computer you own, if you get a new one, add the cost of the computer plus 250$ for microsoft windows when you could be buying a better graphics card or setting up a RAID configuration.

The richest corporation in the world is also the most savage.

(Note: Microsoft doesn't take advantage of me anymore, I have ways of dealing with Microsoft's lameness now. Email me if Microsoft gives you any trouble)

Again, the blame lies not with microsoft, but with you. If you had taken the time to read the licencing agreement that you agreed to you'd see that your limited to installing windows on one machine. You agreed to it when you installed windows, so suck it up.

While I would agree that mircosoft's products are expensive they are fairly reasonable for the cost when you consider just how much work goes into these things. Of course when you take advantage of one of the innumerable ways of getting discounts on microsoft products then they are actually just as appealing as some OSS. Free windows vs. free linux, makes the choice about which does what you need better.

And when I said that you should have said Microsoft I was refering to your gribe about booting. Microsoft doesn't boot your computer. Oh... and windows doesn't just stop working, you must have done something to cause it to break; look up PBCAK

[Boo-chan]

Uhm getting angry at Microsoft because they want you to pay them money for using their software is rather illogical, you might as well get angry at grocery stores for forcing you to pay for food(obviously you should be able to get caffeine for free ) If you don't want to pay for it either a) use free software b) don't use the software or c) steal it(not that I would advise that)

[Martin]

My real gripe with Microsoft is that they're just kind of slow. Windows should be a lot better than it is right now. XP was fine, but that was ... 5 years ago.

Office is pretty nice I have to admit. And I think Microsoft recently upped the license thing to five computers, although I'm not sure.

[rizzix]

M$ is cool. They should stop biting other companies though. Which is why I dislike them. Yet things seem to be changing. I mean, I can't wait for their windows Blackcomb. It supposedly has a new Look and Feel based on 10 year of R&D. Can't wait!

But on the dark side. Microsoft's greatest stratergy was acquisition. They basically bought of smaller competing firms and grew bigger and bigger. (taking off competition is a very bad thing, for the economy and for us consumers anyway) Which reminds of the recent attempt of buying of Opera. Luckily it failed. Opera declined

The other dark side of microsft is thir strategy of releasing a half baked product to the market and then releasing "patches" to bake it up all the way.

Apparently for windows Vista, it seems they have spent a great deal of time trying to perfect it. This hopefully is a good sign.

[Geminias]

well you say the blame is on me for buying their product and complaining. I think that is a fairly major restriction that should be in big letters right on the front of the disc: "One computer per disc". Kind of like how smoke packs have to have pictures of peoples lungs after smoking for some time...

Also, microsoft technically has a monopoly on computer OS's. Because anyone who just wants their computer to talk on msn and write documents and stuff isn't going to want to deal with an OS as user unfriendly as Linux. Plus there is so much linux can't support: if your new to linux. So like I say: if there's no alternative than you can bi~tch all you want about having to buy something that is totally crap. That's just my oppinion, so who thinks I'm justified to say what microsoft does with their license agreement is unfair.