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why is someone a "shill" just becuase they use windows?

When you'll be able to read, you will see that in what you quoted, I talked about people that buy a PC for Windows, not people that use Windows. And I rephrase the sentence you didn't understand : "People buy PCs to do things, not to use Windows. Only shills buy PC only for Windows".


I still, dont get why a person is a shill if they buy a PC for windows? if there PC is a peice of junk, and they buy a new one for a newer version that has different HW requirements?



if they are happy with there OS weather its MacOSX/*nix/windows whatever so be it, people and compaanys should use what they can support and what is best for *them*

Agreed. That's not what's happening in the case of ordinary users : they go buy a PC, they get Windows without a choice proposed to them. But this is another topic.


agreed



when it comes to HPC/supercompuers I am sure plenty of people would love to have a MS cluster runnning .NET

This is a typical example of MS shill sentence. HPC users are not stupid average users searching the latest buzzword like you imply. You are sure of opinion of other people you don't even understand, amazing !
.NET is not a performance killer, so why people would love to use it in HPC ?
Try to not look like a Windows shill at least.


u dont get it do you?.NET is a framework, so if someone has heavy apps or big processing/modeling what ever: and there are doing it with .NET then a
MS cluster would appeal to them.


OSX/*nix arent going away in the cluster area, and MS is not going away on the desktop.

Fine.

fine



I admin both windows and Linux and the MBA/PHB types dont really like the Linux zelots types pitching linux only soltions to everything, and praising it as the 2nd comming. they want to hear a fair comparsation

Good. And so I think we can exchange Linux for Windows in your sentence withtout problem.
Because I don't know if you realise that you are a Windows zealot if you pitch a Windows solution on HPC.


for some stuff you would pitch each, for others you would pitch only the supported platform.
no need for zelotry here



including support of said item, costs, strong and weak points of each.
so they can make a bissiness decision based on that information.

Fine. Sometimes it is not necessary, like in the case of HPC, as MS has no viable solution, despite what you can hear from Windows zealots (one HPC platform is supposed to be a Windows cluster, but we never had any info about it or what it does).



yes, MS clustering sucks ass currently so people doing heavy ms apps may like this.