Rockin' on without Microsoft

[uh Clem]

How many of the computer experts here have run a business...yeah, that's what I thought.

Mr Ball, as a businessman, would seem to be the best judge of his company's interests. He doesn't want Windows; for that matter, he doesn't want Linux, either. He wants to make guitar strings.

MS made themselves too much of a hassle for him, so he tried an alternative, with which he is quite satisfied.

Bill Gates is free to run his company as he sees fit; the rest of us are equally free to seek alternatives. This annoys some people.

[FrustratedPoet]

Mr Ball, as a businessman, would seem to be the best judge of his company's interests

Replacing all their computers with beads-on-poles is in the best interests of his company?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy


Um, no. The sheer number of viruses that infect Windows computers is what makes people mad.

Uh, no. It is the sheer number of asswipes and buttmunchers who write viruses that make people mad.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Asher

It is a known fact that Linux users don't wear underwear, as well as never shower.

They're French? Huh... I didn't know that.

[Kuciwalker]

Yeah. "Linux" is french for "nerd OS"

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
How that happens is you copy CDs and install Windows with the same key on more than one. That's pretty intentional IMO...

Got news for you. People don't have time to install Windows + applications on computers individually. Doing one easily takes up several hours. That's generally not done in any company with more than a handful of computers.

Instead, a "master" wintel box with all the patches, service packs and applications is first configured, and the HDD will be imaged to other machines.

That's why they all got the same CD key, but why would it matter as long as you have sufficient licenses?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
Microsoft did give the warning of an audit, if they didn't the Marshalls wouldn't legally be allowed to be there.

AFAIK, no warning is necessary. They can just pop up at your doorstep one cheery morning.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
Uh, no. It is the sheer number of asswipes and buttmunchers who write viruses that make people mad.

Would you buy a house with no windows (they just got these openings in the walls) and the doors can't be locked?

[laurentius]

Um, why are you Microsoft-lovers always so bully. Clearly this guys knows his business better than you. you laugh at him because his not in the IT business. Don't you morons understand that 90% of businesses using MS products are not in IT? They are still customers who should be listened and respected. If I ever get into pewerful position in any company, I will make sure bully *******s like you won't have future in it.

[FrustratedPoet]

Don't you morons understand that 90% of businesses using MS products are not in IT?

Do you have a source for that or did you just make it up?

Besides, I don't think it really makes any sense. It seems likely that more than 90% of business are not in IT, whether they use MS products or not.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

Don't you morons understand that 90% of businesses using MS products are not in IT?

Do you have a source for that or did you just make it up?

Besides, I don't think it really makes any sense. It seems likely that more than 90% of business are not in IT, whether they use MS products or not.

I reckon what he said is pretty much the same as what you said.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by laurentius
Um, why are you Microsoft-lovers always so bully.

What else do you expect? Bullying is the way of MS, so it is the way of MS fanboys.

[aahz_capone]

M$ forced to use linux machinery

This is a funny story that has something to do with this.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I reckon what he said is pretty much the same as what you said.

I reckon it isn't. So there.

The difference being that he seems to think that statistic is relevant, whereas I say it isn't.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
The difference being that he seems to think that statistic is relevant, whereas I say it isn't.

He didn't deem statistics relevant either. The number 90% can be replaced with 99% or 75% and it doesn't change anything in the statement, that the majority of computer users are not in the IT branch, i.e. they are "users", not "makers". I would expect, that somebody who calls himself a poet, should understand an analogy like this. Even more, the whole IT business has the main purpose to satisfy the needs in computers and software of exactly this productive business. If people like Asher ("Sweet, a guitar-stringe maker talking about computers.") or skywalker ("Wow, I'll listen to him about what software I use. Whew! A GUITAR-STRING MAKER! What a computer whiz!") talk disdainful about people in other branches, it's not only highly arrogant, it's like insulting their future customers. To despise his own customers is certainly not good for one's business.