For all you Microsoft bashers

[raingod42]

i agree about netscape 6 - takes up a shit load of resources, is slow as they come and has over 30 links built in with the installed version (before you start closing all those annoying pullouts). man, i remember netscape 0.6 beta - when it didn't even have a mail program attached - but it ran better then this shit does. ie is and is going to stay the best browser out there. opera is good - but lack the money and marketing power to get anywhere.

don't get me wrong, MS hater here, but, in my life time, i've used (count em)
windows 3.0
3.1
3.11
windows 95 (betas up the ass, when it was still windows 94 and code named memphis)
win 98, win 98 rsc 2 (much better)
win 2k pro
win 2k advnaced server
os 2 warp (rocked!! IBM, your marketing is the worse ever)
red hat linux
macs from 7.6 +

and win2k advanced in the best combination of all the factors that i find important (stability, good UI, compatability). linux has a way to go in the UI departemnt - because as much as i like writing my own OS - i doubt many people out there do too.

having said that, i'll rant alittle about micorsoft. if it weren't for this company setting the standards for coding these days - i believe that we would have allot LESS bugs in today's software. when the world's biggest software company releases software that's really buggy (win95 anyone?), what are the little guys to do?
here's an exapmle (like you need a bug example if you've ever used a computer):
i'm driving my car. suddenly, at 90 MPH (i like to drive fast), my car dies. oh no. i pull over, and turn it back on. oh - it works. i guess i don't need to think about it ever again. this simply won't fly, but if your computer crashes - that's what you do...

office is good for what it's built. HD space is cheap - i'm not here to tell them to write smaller code - as long as it works (and let's admit it, 90% of the time it does work), i don't care if they write 1 million or 1 billion lines of code.

so, to close things up, MS does suck, but macs are too expansive, have a better UI but a much slower (and non-exist multitasking) OS. so for now, it's win2k AS for me.