Kolo
09-29-2002, 10:34 PM
Ok, off topic, flame retardant suit is on.
Why Windows XP and Microsoft will be the end of the world....
One word : Wizards
Everyone asks me why I will not use Windows XP. They say, "It's so easy to use" What do I reply? "I just don't like it." Why?
Have you ever stopped to think about this. With an operating system that is incredibly easy to use, do you actually know how to use it? With all the quick and dirty features of XP and all the auto-configuration it uses, how many people actually know what it's doing? I can tell you for certain that only a select few people can, or will be able to, and most work for Microsoft. If you stop to think about the monopoly they have, they are only re-enforcing it by putting out OS's that do everything for the user. One day Microsoft will come out with the "Next OS". This OS will cost an arm and a leg, and everyone will buy it.
Why? "Because the other operating systems are just too confusing." Why do you say they are confusing? "Because you have to know what settings are needed for ...."
Stop and think about this when you tell your next employer that you know how to use your computer at home. Do you actually know what it does?
On that note, think of programmers. They write applications for an operating system using applications written by the person that wrote the operating system. When this company decides to make the OS "stupid" and the next batch of kids coming out of school that grew up on the "easy to use" operating system, what kind of learning curve will they have? They won't have alot of learning to do...come on, "Microsoft provides us with all the code samples we need to make Project X. Why should we learn how the computer handles this information? Microsoft gives us an easier way to do it." "Well, we are a start-up company that wants to make an operating system to compete, and we need people that can create system control code." "Oh, well, I'm sure we could learn. If everything went perfectly it would only take like six months." (ooc: every scripter/programmer knows you are going to take at least 3 times as much time as you originally state, and usually that's not enough time.) "Oh, we are on a tight budget here, we don't have alot of time and money, our investors want results."
I'm gonna stop now...I hate where this is going. Just put this thought in your head too, a local big name technical college just recently started supplying a full suite of programming tools to the students really cheap. (I mean, like $45, for the entire visual studio) This was done under the condition that that school remove averything concerning Macromedia from their PC's. This isnt Microsoft using their market share to further enforce the monopoly they will hold?
:edit forgot to capitalize Macromedia...Sorry
Why Windows XP and Microsoft will be the end of the world....
One word : Wizards
Everyone asks me why I will not use Windows XP. They say, "It's so easy to use" What do I reply? "I just don't like it." Why?
Have you ever stopped to think about this. With an operating system that is incredibly easy to use, do you actually know how to use it? With all the quick and dirty features of XP and all the auto-configuration it uses, how many people actually know what it's doing? I can tell you for certain that only a select few people can, or will be able to, and most work for Microsoft. If you stop to think about the monopoly they have, they are only re-enforcing it by putting out OS's that do everything for the user. One day Microsoft will come out with the "Next OS". This OS will cost an arm and a leg, and everyone will buy it.
Why? "Because the other operating systems are just too confusing." Why do you say they are confusing? "Because you have to know what settings are needed for ...."
Stop and think about this when you tell your next employer that you know how to use your computer at home. Do you actually know what it does?
On that note, think of programmers. They write applications for an operating system using applications written by the person that wrote the operating system. When this company decides to make the OS "stupid" and the next batch of kids coming out of school that grew up on the "easy to use" operating system, what kind of learning curve will they have? They won't have alot of learning to do...come on, "Microsoft provides us with all the code samples we need to make Project X. Why should we learn how the computer handles this information? Microsoft gives us an easier way to do it." "Well, we are a start-up company that wants to make an operating system to compete, and we need people that can create system control code." "Oh, well, I'm sure we could learn. If everything went perfectly it would only take like six months." (ooc: every scripter/programmer knows you are going to take at least 3 times as much time as you originally state, and usually that's not enough time.) "Oh, we are on a tight budget here, we don't have alot of time and money, our investors want results."
I'm gonna stop now...I hate where this is going. Just put this thought in your head too, a local big name technical college just recently started supplying a full suite of programming tools to the students really cheap. (I mean, like $45, for the entire visual studio) This was done under the condition that that school remove averything concerning Macromedia from their PC's. This isnt Microsoft using their market share to further enforce the monopoly they will hold?
:edit forgot to capitalize Macromedia...Sorry