Why I really dislike Microsoft
Andrew suggests that people like me who dislike Microsoft are doing it for reasons of juvenile jealousy. Speaking for myself that’s actually completely wrong, I dislike Microsoft because:
- Their attempt to force Windows adoption by releasing compilers with no MS DOS support long before Windows became a standard PC platform and there were still many, many, DOS users.
- The way they treated Stac Electronics in the ’90s
- The poor quality of MS operating systems, IMHO it was not until Windows 2000 that Windows became of just about usable quality
- The fact that so much data is locked up in secret MS Office file formats
- and so on…
Once upon Bill Gates was someone I admired, but then I grew up. BTW, I am neither a graduate or young (unfortunately)
[...] Alec has provided a few of the reasons he hates Microsoft. They all seem like sentimental attachment to other peoples litigation defeats… In honour of that, I have changed the colour of my blog for a day or two… [...]
Hi Alec,
I thought you might find this a bit more encouraging. Despite Microsoft’s (natural) unwillingness to have their business future dictated to by standards committees, they have worked very hard to get .NET standardised in both ANSI, ISO and ECMA. the result is that you can get .NET implementations on many non-MS platforms.
Considering that your company makes open source development distros, I thought I should promote .NET to you. Check out this link to see the kinds of platforms that you can develop on with C#. It’s almost as ubiquitous as C, eh? And much nicer.
Andrew
PS: how was the presentation?