Star Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Sep 2005 15:51 UTC, submitted by kellym
Windows "The amazing thing isn't that Windows beat the pants off Unix; it's that so many of the Unix companies survived until today. Linux came into the field though with two big advantages over the Unixes. The first was that it was open-source. The second advantage was it had Linus Torvalds." In other news, here you can read what various people have to say about the restructuring operation at Microsoft.
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In 1980, Microsoft was trying to mimick CP/M (DOS).
In 1995, Microsoft was trying to be close to Mac OS.
In 1996, Microsoft was trying to be close to Netscape.
In 2000, Microsoft was trying to get UNIX stability (Win2k).
In 2001, Microsoft was trying to be KDE (theme the operating system?)
In 2005, Microsoft was trying to mimick Firefox (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker).
In 2006, Microsoft MIGHT catch up to OS X.4

Wake up Microsoft users, this is fast moving internet age....you can't just try to catch up with something already existing.......

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2005-06-29

"In year 2000 [blaaaat] beat MS Vista"
"In 1980 [blaaaat] to OS X.4"

In 1980, everyone was copying from everyone.
In 1985, everyone was copying from everyone.
In 1990, everyone was copying from everyone.
In 1995, everyone was copying from everyone.
In 2000, everyone was copying from everyone.
In 2005, everyone is copying from everyone.
In 2010, everyone will be copying from everyone.
In 2015, everyone will be copying from everyone.

There, the software/operating systems world in a nutshell.

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In 2005, Microsoft released a 64-bit OS, without any competent apps. Linux was 64-bit in 1993, and has THOUSANDS of 64-bit Apps! Microsoft MIGHT catch up in ten to fifteen years, to where Linux was in 2000!

In 2005, Microsoft acknowledged its 305th loss in civil court, for theft of Intellectual porperty, just like the many CRIMINAL FELONY convictions. More the reason NOT to deal with a person, or corporation, with no ethics...

In 2004, and again, in 2005, Microsoft released a Server OS, that upon release, cannot serve their own office suite, and other, products!

Look at what it tells your customers and clients, when they see some intern on your floor, entering their private financial/medical data into an unsecured terminal database, wide open to the world!

Sheesh! The smart 40% of FOSS users run Debian Linux.

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