The anti microsoft movement!

For myself, I don't care too much who made a product as long as it's great. I used to prefer Google Desktop Search, but more recently the Windows Desktop Search got better in a lot of ways, so I switched to that. I liked Linux better until XP came out. Then it was Mac OS X - but just now I saw some stuff about Ubuntu Linux, so I'm going to check it out. If it can run Windows at the same time as Ubuntu similarly to OS X running Windows in Parallels Desktop, then I'll seriously think about Ubuntu. It is a lot cheaper than OS X, which requires a Mac to run it. OS X does have scads of good points - but if Ubuntu can match them, well then ...

I use Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (email), and Open Office (office suite) so it's a piece of cake to move to a new OS. A few things are nicer in Windows (Total Commander, the best file manager + that I've found, and I've looked hard). OS X has something similar, but simpler. Don't know about Linux/Ubuntu. Many if not most of the cool apps I use in XP are only necessary because of the shortcomings in XP, and I wouldn't need them in Ubuntu and certainly not in OS X. Plus virtual Windows emulators like Parallels Desktop are coming out all over the place, so I'll be able to keep anything I must have from Windows.

And someday soon (before we expect it) I bet someone will come out with implants or heads-up displays plus voice- and gaze-activated controls and computers/phones/TV's/autodocs/Third Life in your sunglasses or jewelry. Then I'll decide all over again. It's a fast-moving cyber-world, and you have to enjoy surfing on the wave of change. (But imagine all the 3D-Web surfers mumbling and muttering to themselves in public as they stagger through the world trying to stay wired and jacked in while not wandering into traffic ...)

 

Well you can always try ubuntu live boot , just enter the CD and enjoy the wonders of ubuntu . Also you can have both ubuntu and windows at the same time . Ive seen some articles in which you can run all the windows apps on ubuntu , cant remember the url though . Anyways a good reason to switch from windows LOL!!

 

Most person would like to hate Microsoft but all of them user their product. Can some one tell me reason I you hate Microsoft and its product why are you all are still using their products.

To know the how many user use Microsoft roducts just check your web site log file. In my case 96% user of my web sites use Microsoft OS

 

This are some of the worst reasons to come with. You don't like IE? don't use it, you don't like msn/live? don't use it.

The real problem is Windows. Because there are many things both software and hardware that work only on Windows so you are forced to use it. Hardware manufacturers have windows in mind when doing things same with software developers. So if you want a fancy new scanner let's say, you cannot take it because it does not work (yet) on Linux or on other OS beside Windows.

And how can you trust windows as an operating system when you know that microsoft can't even build a proper browser, look at IE and compare it with Firefox.

Btw, pirates of the silicon valley is a nice movie about microsoft and how they do business.

 

I use firefox and anything else I can get that isn't microsoft related. I'm waiting for an operating system that is better than anything microsoft or mac can come up with. There should be choices...no one should have a monopoly on anything...isn't that what free trade supposed to be all about? I'd like to believe that free trade still exists in the U.S. of A., but there are too many damned corps. like microsoft doing their damnedest to make free trade a thing of fantasy...an idea of the past. I will continue to support those open source folks who continue the good fight against assholes like microsoft and google.

 

Firefox ftw

 

Microsoft is a dinosaur. Bill Gates has fallen prey to his own success - the age of shrink-wrapped software is at an end

 

Microsoft is great
its better than apple thats just a fact accept it

 

They are both different and both have their good and bad points.

 

I actually like Microsoft for the most part. With the exception of Vista. But I am sure they improve on Vista or bring out a new software that is just as great as 95, 98 or yet as just as good as XP which I really prefer.

 

i like their products, i just don't like their search engine, and the adcenter. had to pay my bank $30 for over draft b/c they mistakenly gave me and then took out $.09 in bank account. i called, they told me they couldn't do anything...so mad i was.

 

If you don't like Microsoft, don't use their products. Simple as that