When bad people tell bullshit, they need to be debugged, just a little byte !
“We think our software is far more secure”. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive. But is Steve know about this ?
How can the maker of the most insecure O.S. in the world – at least the most easily hacked and cracked, filled with thousands of new virus everyday, including the lowest security level and a zero guarantee users privacy – can told Asian governments that they could face intellectual property rights claims if they use free software such as Linux.
It is Microsoft owns patents or license on Linux or simply the Management staff is loosing control and want make a group-suicide jumping out of the Windows…?
Some recents facts that could push Microsoft to change strategy:
1) Be good with Europeans
Where the understanding of quality, security and price for -free- open-source software makes Microsoft products more obsolete every single day. “The German city of Munich has decided to switch 14,000 of its personal computers to a Linux-based operating system and Paris is said to have considered a similar move.” said the BBC, also Microsoft “has decided not to appeal against an European court order”.
2) Makes a very interesting offers to Nokia?
Until the past years Nokia had always refused to use Microsoft technologies in its telephones…”Finnish Nokia, the largest manufacturer of mobile telephones in the world, and American Microsoft, world number one in software market, announced that they work together to make possible to the consumers to easily transfer numerical music between their mobiles and their micro-computers”.
The Wall Street Journal
3) Be aggressive and – of course – do not respect the law
As Microsoft did already all over the world and continue doing it, fraud and treath, lobbying and corrupt.
“Windows XP Starter Edition reflects a simplification to the operating system corresponding to the lowered price and increased value,” said Paul Randle, Windows Client product manager. This Starter Edition of Windows XP is intended for low-cost PCs on sale in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia and two other countries in Asia.
BBC News
4) Try to tell users they will – maybe never – have the best Web browser.
“The most secure, the most what ?” until now it was just the best spy software for the NSA…
Microsoft is working on a new version of its Internet Explorer web browser.
And on and on…and are there people still paying for a substandard software suite ?
I post below – as already done in the past – some links about some software sometimes Windows-like but even much better!
- Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for open source computing.
- Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer.
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 empowers businesses to leverage Linux* and open source by delivering a scalable, high-performance foundation for secure enterprise computing.
- OpenOffice.org is a free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites.
- Firefox the Web browser and Thunderbird the e-mail software.
- Mozilla Suite includes web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application.
Special :
- Mac OS X, Take a tour of Tiger, the upcoming edition of the world’s most advanced operating system…
