Originally posted by Czidvar@May 31 2006, 03:13 PM
<-------- Must be doing something wrong cause he doesn't mind Microsoft products and rarely has any problem.
Czi
Honestly, I think my personal distaste for M$ came with learning to use Linux. A friend installed it once on a second computer of mine some 12 years ago, and ever since I've been a Linux addict. Most Unix (Linux) based software is freely available to download and install, and much of it is open source, allowing you to alter programs to do what you want.
I like the highly customizability of such systems, and over time, I've come to dislike the strictness MS puts into theirs. Want this functionality? Pay more for it. A simple example is Microsoft Office. Try finding a job without having a resume in word format? Near impossible. I had plain txt and .rtf format, then I found OpenOffice.org... FREE office software compatible with MS Office. So lets see... spend $100's of dollars on MS Office, or FREE OpenOffice.org? Free won out. That's just a short simple example of my own tho.
MS products are good, provided their thought out, not full of security issues, not "bloated" (ie: take up lots of CPU and/or memory and/or system resources), and fill a niche the public needs/wants. I would love to use Windows and Office, but I can't afford to spend $100's on software, I do need to buy groceries B)
One thing I don't like about MS Windows Media Player is all that licensing and DRM felgercarb where you can't open a file you have on your computer due to an uninstalled license. Though I am kind of shooting myself in the foot, as the company I work for also hosts DRM licensed media... *sigh* (DRM= Digitial Rights Management)
~ Jaraeth
