Monday, July 10, 2006

M$ and you

Sometimes I think that there are companies that challenge us to write posts like that.
Why am I saying that? Check this out
To sum up, Microsoft sends a CD with a virus, with the label: "ALL the software you asked for. Serials Nums included"
I think that M$ is trying to get an unfair revenge to the piracy.
Let me tell you some things before I continue.
Whenever you log on to your m$ OS, m$ knows it.You cannot do anything about that, no matter how hard you try.
Whenever you open Media Player, m$ receives money from your clicks.
Whenever you add a downloaded mp3 in your library knows it.
Whenever you GOD Damn press a button M$ Freakin' KNOWS IT!
SO WHY THE FUNK SENDS A VIRUS CD TO "HACKERS" WHEN THE COMPANY HACKS EVERYONE???
Lets say that you actually bought XP, what do you get? An OS full of viruses WITH the tolerance of M$.
"Yeah but it is so easy to use them" -NO NO NO! Its not easier than Linux or Unix or anything else. Lets say you want to install a program. You need to open setup.exe, then click about 10 times, then when the program is installed, you restart your PC and then try to make it suit in your needs. Time approximatelly 10 minutes.
In other OS you compile them,install, and then fit it in your needs. Time 5 minutes.
why? because you do not reboot for small programs.
I didn't mention of course if you need :WInRAR, Net Frameworks, win installers 3.11.22.5.5.6.6.3.2.65.7.8. or crap like that that are NOT included with your expensive OS.
To sum up: M$ sucks, not for its OS but for its policy to keep the OS in such a bad version. Nothing usefull, you need about 500 mb of downloads in oreder to get your PC working properly.

1 comment:

George 2K8 said...

Just LOL. This MUST be a hoax. M$ cannot be so stupid!

You are right. You buy an expensive OS that:
1) advertises itself as plug-n-play + user friendly but its very own design (drivers running at kernel level) causes extreme system instability when you try to aply "plug-n-play" using hardware and peripherals from different vendors.
2) has many security exploits that hackers know, M$ knows but you (the guy who purchased this software) cannot know (closed source code).
3) reports stuff about you and your system to M$ without asking. e.g. I have disabled automatic checking for windows updates but every now and then my firewall warns me that svchost (Windows wrapper for OS services) tries to contact windowsupdate.microsoft.com (or something like that - I am positive this is the WGA issue)
4) broadcasts everything! I get mad when everything tries to broadcast the moment a network connection is established. Why? I don't wanna!
5) tries to do things FOR you, BEFORE you. The problem is that, unless you are a newbie who things the computer does things "on its own", you find yourself sitting in front of a system that operates in its own mysterious ways.
6) You have to buy extra software (firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware) to compensate for the OS's deficiencies. But the problem is that this type of software trusts the OS by default. And most problems have to do with the core systems of the OS and not third-party programs. So you don't get much done. It's like you buy an expensive car (let's say a BMW) but you also have to buy an alarm system and air bags but a simple shortcircuit (due to defective car design) may prevent the alarm system or the air bags from going off at a critical moment. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
7) Windows comes with a lot of "extras" (for which US courts have found M$ guilty for acting against the rules of a free market) like Media Player or Internet Explorer but they suck so bad that all of them have to be replaced by third-party software like Winamp and Firefox. So why bother bundling them with the OS?

In the end of the day, who owns your computer? You or your OS?

Linux is not that hard. If you google a linux question you will find hunders of sites, forums and mailing lists addressing this or similar issues. When it comes to M$ there is its own Help Database (with little useful info) and commercial solutions that urge you to pay for a simple hint or tweak!

That's NOT all I have to say but I believe you'll get the point. I am always available for further talks.