Brainsaw wrote:@Repgahroll: I am not a big MS-fan, but some of the hardware I had from them (Joysticks, 1st generation natural keyboard) were really great imho. OK, currently I don't have any MS hardware (Thrustmaster Joystick, Logitech Keyboard), so this might have changed in the meantime. But: my smartphone with WindowsMobile is very reliable, never had a crash with it, whereas my Archos pma430 mp3/video player with a Linux version (with QTopia GUI) crashes every 4 to 5 times I try to program it's video recording function.
Ok man... i'm not telling that every new MS hardware is poop, Xbox for example was a pretty well made videogame, however it had almost no piracy protection (as 360), and became outdated very fast. I know MS has some nice hardware, but i'm not going to buy 'cause i'm not a fool, as long as i have other options (Google is another monopoly, i know, but their products are amazing, Apple also has some amazing products).
Also, it's not fair to compare "Archos" (never heard before) with those big companies, the problem is some small companies think that Linux means totally or almost free software costs, while sometimes Linux can even be more expensive than Windows, companies that take it seriously and don't want to lower the costs to the limit, always get a pretty nice rock-solid gear.
I personally love the Maemo platform, Android is good, but it's very hard to port things to it, Maemo is almost "just Linux". Other proprietary restrictive OSs simply sucks IMHO.
I'm not a opensource activist or something, i just think some licences are very very restrictive, did you ever saw how hard is to simply install a new theme on Windows XP/Vista? - This is the problem! Every iPhone is the same, every Windows-based gear is the same, no matter how "ultimate hacker" the guy is, as long as he doesn't uninstall all this heck and install Linux/Other, he will not be able to customize 'his' software.
Sylence wrote:Repgahroll wrote:MSVS has support for a lot of other languages that i don't care, because .NET platform IMHO is a gay javavm shameless fork [...]
One year ago I thought the same. Then I actually tried C# and felt in love with it
I will not even try such language while Java does everything that i want (actually I tried asp and IMHO is sucks, PHP is far better) and i owe all my money to Linux, and .NET will never run okay under Linux. Where would be my gratitude if begin to use .net? BTW... i never found any site using silverlight. Who knows if the platform is really secure? I would not access a bank that uses such technologies (.net), i think at least half-world share the same opinion, that's why every bank i know uses java
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Actually, the only MS product that i think really worth is MSVS
and i will not buy it! huahauhauhau.
Of course Windows worth because of games, otherwise a pile of dog's poo would be better IMHO. Even some softwares that was native on Windows platform now runs very choppy on it, a good example is ugs nx, the first versions was windows-only (i think), now the latest version runs much better under Linux (if you have a workstation or ati card, because the latest nvidia standard drivers for linux sucks).
Also, Windows is cheap, otherwise Mac would be the most used OS on offices.
Of course, all that i posted is just MHO. I don't mean to be rude.