On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Arun Kumar Khan <kn...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Monday 19 Jan 2009, Arun SAG wrote: > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx > > This is why i hate M$ > > Agree, but the target audience for these studies are people who don't > bother to find out for themselves for various sources and come to their > own conclusion. To the uninitiated, these reports paint a rosy picture > of MS solution. > I was reminded of http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/windows-server-vs-red-hat-linux.mspx I was stunned at the stupidity of the so-called "IT giant" when it pointed out that the only manageability feature of RHEL was the yum update tool. Can they be so stupid? (Yeah.. They are). I soon realized that it was yet another MBA guy who has never used a more complicated software than MS Paint who must have reviewed the OSes. Open Standards != Open Source? Why Microsoft does not even bother about interoperability. It expects others to spend time making it interoperable with its crap OS. That is sickening since M$ has probably the most useless API one can ever come across. MFC huh? Most <The f word>ed Classes. Now .nOt! Maybe there was a link in the page you pointed to too. I agree with M$ that there is no silver bullet in security. The only thing they dont seem to realize is that there is no way of patching an OS that is fundamentally flawed. It M$ did feel that the admin user was an irritance, why did they add that to XP and Vista? >From the days when Linux pointed out the places where it was deployed, M$ seems to have had to hunt deeply for finding out a city that used M$ software. I guess the mayor was clueless anyway. I can't believe my eyes when I see a reliability column in that page. If I argued like M$ did(reinterpreting every definition), I would say a leader is one who keeps his people happy. So every clown is a leader! Out of 100 people Microsoft employs, 80 are MBA grads, 9 are lawyers, 9 are spokesmen and the 1 HR rep? Coders, anyone? I wonder how Leslie Lamport and Simon Peyton Jones joined there. Maybe it is the assurance that M$ will never use the quality software that they create. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham. P.S: My apologies to all clowns. I shouldn't have demeaned your talents by the analogy to Microsoft _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
