Is Microsoft Bad?  

Neither do I... They have made some really good and easy to use softwares for users. Infact, I think MS products and softwares are the best.

me too. I think MS is good. its user friendly. MS has also good service. lots of freebies and good security updates.

I too,ms is not bad company.they have given many operating systems than any other company did.it made easy to industries,educational institutions,and many other fields.you can't imagine with out windows operating systems.they are providing us many patches uptodate for the new holes found in os.on seeing this do u think ms is bad.

I feel that money is not sole thing which makes microsoft gr8 ,its customer satisfaction .. even lamer could know how to
operate WINDOWS as compared to other operating systems in the market which are really to understand .....Simplicity is essence of MICROSOFT !!!!!!!

i never have used OS/2 but the proof lies in the pudding...still there are people buying OS/2 suggests that they love it than Microsoft...don't they? Goto any free download website and you could find the OS download version as well. So we can honestly say Microsoft is comfortably in a complacent mood...

I agree with this. I have a dual boot system, with Windows XP and Fedora Core Linux. I get viruses all the time with Windows and I never have gotten a single problem with Linux.
People who know only a little about computers do not understand the difference but this is a good example.

I have Windows XP and I don't get virus infections or spyware. If you do, it's not your operating systems problem.

lol. I wasn't just talking about viruses, I was talking about security in general and just reliablity in general. But, here check out this: http://www.theregister.co...

Well just For your Information:

I am an user of Mac OSX with Unix shell and the fact is Mac OS
-DOES NOT NEED an antivirus or anti spyware - credit goes to the engineering briliance and the robust design of their processors.

-Has a usability is better than Win2k or XP

Windows is vulberable .Good ,that Vista claims to have improved the security

IN addition Solaris (a flavor of Linux and for that matter any linux flavor) is known to be the most powerful one to maintain huge servers / databases/web sites ,due to its robustness.It is never known to crash.Windows on such heavy environments is unthinkable.

Yes Windows is good for the desktops of laymen.But I am quite sure any seasoned computer user or an IT prefoessional would prefer Linux or Mac.

REally..for the present computer world..microsoft has gretaimportance,We have to give respect

No Microsoft does not have great importance. It has done some good things but it is mostly just the equivalent of a fast food resturant. Everyone likes them but doesn't change the fact that the food is crap and is bad for you.

Dude, you obviously know nothing about Linux! As someone who works in computer Networking I can tell you from first hand experience that linux is by far much more professional. It was designed for profesional computer Networking. It is more stable and secure than Windows. Even though Windows is so popular a vast number of corporate servers are still run on Linux, and more are adopting it every day. As a matter of fact it used to be that even some Microsoft servers were run on Linux.

Also I can run Linux for a 2 months straight without having to reboot once. All the while I can be running numerous programs at the same time without closing any of them at all for the whole 2 months. Windows XP can not do this and will slow down and even crash if you try it.
Apache ( A Linux program) is by far the most popular server software on the internet.

Your logic is actually backwards as Linux hasn't been in the past as good as Windows at running the fun stuff. Now they are both about the same, except Linux still works better in proffessional settings.
Were did you get this stuff from?

Linux is a great server software and runs most of the Internet, but it SUCKS as a desktop system and has very little software to do the real work a computer must be able to do. If that were not the case, all the Windows bashers would possibly have an argument and they would gan some headway. Try again next year.

i think microsoft is better than linux.
microsoft have a lot of software.
and linux they didn't have alot of software.i think if you say linux is a great.i think you are wrong.

The only reason the Linux open source community doesn't seem to be gaining head way is because Microsoft is the fast food giant of the computing world. More money equals more advertising but not a better product. More advertising means more people in favor of the product but it doesn't make it good product. Majority opinion does not make that opinion correct esp. with IT, as IT is an objective issue and opinion is subjective in nature.
Yes, Linux has not in the past been as good with desktop stuff but with recent changes Linux IS just as good if not better. I do all my desktop stuff on Linux and only have Windows at all because my wife is USED to it. Which is the other reason Microsoft has more head way is that people are USED to it. But, does it really have more head way or are you just less aware of all the people out there using Linux for all their computing needs?

adi_doank,
Have you ever used Linux or are you just talking crap? Linux has just as much software if not more and it is 99% free.

I have used several Linux distros and was a dealer for Caldera. Yes I'm very familiar with Linux and have a Samba Server on my home network. As a desktop system, I will take Microsoft Windows any day of the week. Using Linux to do the work I need to accomplish on a daily basis would be like an engineer going back to using a yellow pad and a slide rule.

Why? Linux does everything as Windows does and if it does not you can download or write a program that will allow you to do what it does not do. Most of the time at this point you don't have to do any of your own program writing to have everything Windows provides you with. Then you have what Windows has and all the benefits of Linux all for free.

If what you say was even close to being true, they would have a much larger market share, but you are welcome to use it.

No not really as Microsoft's attempt at marketing is much more effective than that of Linux and the Open source movement. You are judging the quality of the technology by the quantity of money which is not a valid measurement. It is like my father once told me about tooth past. Just because one tooth paste company is larger and everyone knows about them does not mean they are the best tooth paste it just means they are more aggressive in making themselves known. Some products are not as well known simply because they have not dedicated as much effort to being known. This does not change the value of the product in providing the best service possible though. Often the most valuable gems are found hidden from the public eye.

Just because someone is popular does not make them the better man, and many a men of become popular though less than savory means.
Further there is evidence that Bill Gates stole many of his so called original ideas. Like I said less than savory means, but I understand if perhaps you are bias on the issue being that you are a business man yourself.

That's a policy I admire, I wish I could pull the trigger faster on things I want to release instead of losing money waiting when I can fix it as we go along. The new users like me that are willing to buy it anyway supply a lot of the testing they need to make it better. Sure I have service pack 2 on my XP system, but I don't have any problems either.

Still, if I go to burger king and then I go to a fancy restaurant I will notice the fancy place makes delicious burgers and burger kind makes some crap that doesn't even taste like meat. Still burger kind makes more money than the fancy place, not because they deliver a better product but because they deliver more product, and more people know they exist and can afford them. Personally I would rather make my own delicious food at home which is cheaper than burger kind and tastes even better than the fancy place (as I know how to cook). Linux is the fancy place and your own home cooking combined. Linux has more high quality ingredients, and more people put their hearts into it than the mass produced fast food crap you get from Windows. Experience shows me that Linux works better (tastes better) than Windows. Still just like burger king sometimes you want something fast and easy that sings to the laziness in all of us. let us all cultivate our sloth.

That's typical Geek Talk and I would expect it. I've run Caldera, Red Hat, Fedora, Clark Connect and several other distros, but I am not a geek. I'm a businessman and I respect what Microsoft has done for business.

I'm afraid I've heard all the rhetoric from other Linux Geeks for so many years and if they were going to make it, they would have done so by now. I mean they had IBM, Honeywell, Sun and some of the biggest companies in the world behind them and still no real performance.

Technical superiority won't get passed business acumen this year or any year to come.

Well, I have to give you that one. Microsoft owns the market and realisticlly it will be a long time if ever that Linux takes over, esp. since the primary concern of the open source community is not business success but a good product. It is sad actually because your words justify my concern that the business community on this issue does not care about the people who use the product they only care about the money they make. So, Microsoft owns the market and the market would topple without them and all those people would be out of business, yet with the money they have already acquired producing crap, they could easily turn a new leaf and start giving people a superior product. There is no excuses to begin with as they should have just made good product from the beginning.

I'll admit that it is a complicated issue, but I would choose technical superiority over business acumen any day. Were is the pride in producing something of high value? The honor in giving people something you know works right?

I'm also not here to bash Microsoft as I don't think they are all bad. They do a lot of good, but you have to look at things realisticlly from both the business and the technical aspect or why even talk about computers? I thought your question was about Microsoft both from a business and a technical aspect. I choose to address the technical as Open Source is growing because of this quaility. But they are not usually considered a for-profit business so maybe they don't fit into this discussion at all? But, really computers are about helping people so does it even matter who is better at the business it should be who is reaping the most assitence in their lives. If you look at a lot of Windowz verses primarily Open Source users, the open source consumer is usually much more technically knowledgable as open source encourages people to learn and grow with the tech, not just point and click cause this is what is easy.

You are welcome to run Linux instead. You will just have to suffer the lack of real benefits that Microsoft can give you. They don't control the market at all, the consumer does and the consumer picks Microsoft.

The consumer 'picked' Microsoft because there is no viable alternative, partly because Microsfot illegally quashed the competition in some cases.

I'm looking for a job and many employers require resumes to be submitted in Word docs. I have no choice but to use Word, but it's not like I'm choosing it; the fact is I don't have a choice (except to not apply for the job).

I'd like to see Google's online programs light a fire under Microsoft. Big companies tend to respond slowly to change, and if they benefit from competitors to motivate them to innovate and change.

Sorry, no truth in that either. You can get a copy of Open Office for Linux and do your resume without going near Microsoft. So why don't all the big offices use Open Office?
No support might be a good reason and they don't mind paying for it either.

There certainly are other choices. You can go to Frye's Electronics right now and buy an AMD machine with Linux on it for so cheap it amazes me. I have seen them for less than $200 including the complete software. They even sell a few, but I run Microsoft because it's GOOD, not because I'm forced to. Does that make AMD and Lindows strong enough to pass Microsoft and Intel? I don't think it ever will.

You are welcome to buy an Apple, but when you do just think about why they only have 5% of the market, after all they are competition, aren't they? Just watch those commercials on TV (if you have them) that Apple puts out making the PC guy look stupid. Did they work?

Thanks for the info. I haven't been computer shopping for a long time. Those points are worth considering.

I don't think so!!!

i think microsoft is not bad, its connects people, its a business i know. people discover microsoft are really an intelligent one. he just make us make an easy wa to buy things..

i think microsoft is not a bad company. i trust them more.

oldbuddy, I like ho you used the old Lindoz terminology. Very sneaky of you. For those that don't know the term Lindoz is applied as a way of making Linux look like they are copying Windowz. No need for me to say more than that they are not, use Linux and find out for yourself.

Oh, I should add for those that don't know that Lindows is on OS that has a GUI like that of Windows. But is not a copy of Windows.
Though any self respecting geek would use another version of Linux.

Also, what oldbuddy doesn't point out is the massive saturation of advertisment for Microsoft type products. You hardly ever...I have never seen it...a Linux or Open source software add on T.V. With the total bombardment to the consumer that is why Microsoft owns the market.

Oh...you made me feel old. My Mom's best friend used to give us her used punch cards from the office. My mom would used them to make flashcards to help us with our homework! Thanks alot! LOL