Why I hate Microsoft

"A personal, lengthy, but highly articulate outburst"

Appendix B: links

• Microsoft crash gallery An amusing (or depressing, depending on your point of view) collection of screenshots that illustrate the many ways in which MS products are prone to crash.
• Windows NT and VMS: the rest of the story Is NT really New Technology?
• "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)?" This paper by David A. Wheeler provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures.
• Jerry Pournelle referred to this article on his Chaos Manor website, but disagreed with me about the early history of Microsoft and Windows. Here is a transcript of the discussion that followed. (This is in raw text format because I can't be bothered to convert it to HTML).
• The Netcraft uptime top-50 lists webservers by average uptime. As I write this, Windows NT/2000 and/or IIS aren't even on the list!
• Georgi Guninski is a Bulgarian security consultant, who hunts security leaks for a hobby. Needless to say, Microsoft keeps him quite busy. Don't let his less-than-perfect English fool you; I believe this man holds the unofficial record for discovering MS security leaks. Read it and weep.
• Windows NT vs. CP/M
• This is how one user felt about Microsoft...
• Billgatus of Borg on the cover of Boardwatch magazine
• A new NT 4.0 logo
• What users thought of Bill Gates
• Look here if you thought this page was bad... :-)
• Microslaves
• Windows 2000 buglist
• Microsoft Linux - at last!
• Microsoft acquires de facto monopolies in education Catch 'em while they're young...
• The best bluescreen ever If the Blue Screen Of Death looked like this, I wouldn't mind seeing it so often! :-))
• MSBC The Microsoft Boycott Campaign, including the Superlist of anti-MS websites
• This The is probably the best way to install Windows
• Computer rage Tales of woe from the field
• Remarks by Steve Ballmer. Read a transcript of an interview with Steve Ballmer where he (rather weakly, IMO) tries to defend the new Software Assurance licencing scheme in response to critical questions from his customers.
• This is a must-read for anyone who believes that "Linux is too hard to use".
• Wikipedia even has an entry on the BSOD. Go figure.
• 10,000 bugs away from world domination An ex MS developer hails Open Source

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