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I was thinking the same thing. Its all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out or blue screen to death. maybe they will release patches for missing limbs or pets.

I wish that some osnews readers were more intelligent than pure MS haters. I own much of MS' embedded software in my PDAs and phones and they all run admirably well. Instead, my Linux embedded devices (from Zaurus to my 2 Linux phones, 1 PMP, 2 TV-out video devices) are NOT (slow, under featured & tediously buggy). So, before you start your "die, die" crap, use the software, test it and then open your stupid mouth.

Edited 2006-12-13 23:23

Yes.

Edited 2006-12-14 02:34

Try untwisting your knickers for two seconds... it was a damn joke.

stop bitching, Eugenia, and grow some humor. Half of those are harmless jokes at Microsofts expense. Stop being so damned uptight.

Edited 2006-12-14 03:32

Eugenia, deary me...

So you have a couple of PDA's that work and Linux ones that don't, somehow that means we can't poke fun at MS...

I have a Mac here that runs it's OS "admirably", and XP on a few boxes that don't. Am I allowed to poke fun at MS?

I think we can take it as a joke (right now) as most hobby robots struggle to move, let alone kill people... I think the intent of the post was that MS is infamous for it's less than stable software (no finger pointing as to why), so the fact that an OS is being written by them for robots lends itself to jokes don't you think?

I'm guessing you are just very tired and have had a long day huh...

I experience is exactly the other way around. I used to be a huge MS fan until they drop support for hardware I had, killed stacker by copying their software, crashed my computer during my internship, and killed the market for (good) PDA's.
I used to own a Palm V. Never had any problems with it. It never crashed. I was speedy as well.
Then I had to buy a new one and since everybody was using Windows Mobile I though I should as well. Thinking: If everybody is using it: it can not be that bad. I was horribly wrong. The thing freezes for reasons I can not comprehend, looses data and is memory hungry. And lets not talk about the User Interface...

Sorry just needed to unload.

(As you can now guess: I run Linux now)

"So, before you start your "die, die" crap, use the software, test it and then open your stupid mouth."

Wait a second while I go get my MedBot. :O)

Edited 2006-12-14 14:12

Bravo Eugenia

You tell'em like it is.

I, too, am tired of the MS jokes. Were they at least funny, they'd be somewhat tolerable.

But it's the same joke, rinsed and repeated endlessly.

The MS bashing is long passed the point where it's taking away from discussion.

I do agree with most replies here, they were just jokes, though some have their bit of serious criticism embedded.

And I think that your last sentence was uncalled for. As a moderator, you should know better. I even pondered on modding you down, but then decided that it was not a direct attack, and so a mod down wasn't justified. But... it was close.

I use Windows, Linux, I used OS/2, Atari TOS, and some others, and I can say much of the fame that Microsoft's OSes have is indeed justified. I also say that the last few versions of Windows (2k and XP) are very good, *if* run on decent hardware. But, still, they do have their major quirks.

Still, they are jokes, and they were taken as such.

I own much of MS' embedded software in my PDAs and phones and they all run admirably well.

Good for you. None of mine ever did.

Instead, my Linux embedded devices (from Zaurus to my 2 Linux phones, 1 PMP, 2 TV-out video devices) are NOT (slow, under featured & tediously buggy).

Is that a reflection on Linux itself, or on some of the poor software implemented on top?

I think that a joke at Microsoft's expense is warranted. It's pretty clear that Microsoft has looked at the potential of the robotics market (or what they think is the potential) and thought "Oh my God, we have to be a part of that!" like they always do, and created a new robotics department with another new General Product VP Manager Evangelist etc. etc.

Sadly for them, the Far East, and the Japanese in particular, are already country miles ahead where robotics is concerned, and the software is already there.