AppleMatters: How Microsoft Will Die...
http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/423/
Sometimes when I read stuff like this I seriously think it was originally written for “The Onion”
Having a point to point argument with this guy would be like beating up a kid in a wheelchair but I thought I would bring up a few of the wackier points for good laughs.
“Shoddy software practices are forced on programmers due to incompetent managers which in turn produces the mess that is Longhorn.”
– Those terrible managers and shoddy practices, that’s the problem. Please tell me though, do you know any of these managers? Can you detail these bad practices? Have you even seen the “mess” that is Longhorn?
“Then on the server side Microsoft has finally realized that they are fighting a losing war.”
– Yeah and the fact that so many people are tossing Windows 2003 for other things just amplifies this…
“Now factor in the ITMS and how profitable it has been.”
– Forget the fact that Microsoft makes twice as much PROFIT in one month than ITMS has done in total revenue its entire lifetime.
“News flash! Longhorn is going to be drastically overshadowed by Leopard and Macs running Intel.”
- So everyone will be excited for the 200 people who still use Macs while no one will care the 200 million + users will be getting an upgrade.
“Throw all of the current Windows code away. All of it. Everything from 9x to XP to Longhorn, everything has to go. It’s all crap and its time to jettison those reeking piles of poorly written, buggy code.”
– I love proclamations from people who expose themselves in this way; I wonder how many lines of code this guy has written (hint: HTML does not count).
“There is no need to make IE so deeply attached to your kernel. Bad things happen when you do stuff like that.”
– OK, can you even give me a salient definition of a kernel? IE has never been part of the kernel, it will not be in Longhorn either.
And the one I like best is his suggestion for what Microsoft should do; suggestion number one, top of the list...Admit Defeat!
Ha! I love a good laugh.