Microsoft - what is to love

Message ID: 363106

Posted By: deepdistrust

Subject: Microsoft - what is to love

The vast majority of PC users don't just "surf the web, exchange email, or compose a letter". They hook up a variety of peripherals to their PC's. You can hook up almost any new electronic toy to a Windows PC, and expect to use it right away. Despite being nontechnical, the users are able to use the PCs to their full potential with the help of easy to use Microsoft software. Microsoft deserves a great deal of credit for making computing accessible to almost the entire world. They turned nothing into a multibillion dollar business.

On the other hand, a Unix clone is under development for the last 15 years. It's only recently (4-5 years?) that it became powerful enough to be used as a server platform, though it is still a distant second to Windows. Software donated by IBM and other companies played a large part in its success as a server. On the desktop front, it is still very hard to use for nontechnical users, and it made little headway as a result.

When juxtaposed with Linux's struggles, Microsoft achievments look even more magnificient.

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