167 Reasons No One Should Trust Microsoft
March 7, 2010
This is the first in a 167 part series, on the unreliability, untrustworthiness, and occasional <wink> outright lies and dishonesty from the big guy, Microsoft.
I know these guys are an easy target, but I just can’t help myself.
OK, its a little tough to pick a starting point in this pile of rubbish, but what about security, and specifically the whole thing with viruses? This is a huge part of the Window’s world. Every window user is at risk constantly, and pays the piper in one way or another.
So this has been a problem since when? Windows 3.1 in the early ’90′s? Or earlier? Fey, its a good 15 years no matter how you slice it.
And when did Microsoft release any kind of product to fight this plague? 2009 you say? Correcto mundo, sherlock. That’s quite a response. Or lack of one. In that time, how many Window’s systems were laid bare? How many corporate networks infiltrated? How many billions of dollars spent fighting this stuff? A bunch, no matter how you slice that one.
I wonder how long it would take Apple to produce a product should they ever find themselves in a similar situation? A month, maybe? With the next release? Probably not long. Certainly not fifteen years.
Not that they have the best track record for responding to exploits, but they are a damn site better than Microsoft. And they have a lot more respect for their paying customers than you-know-who too. Microsoft has winked at the problem since day one.
Meanwhile an entire industry has sprouted up in response to this crap. And where was Microsoft all this time? Watching? Why does it take them so long? Is there some kind of quid pro quo going on? Is Microsoft profiting from producing faulty products? Are there kick backs going on? I mean, WTF. How do you make sense out of this crap? The Linux Snob says “you can’t!”.
Well, you can’t.
@linuxsnob
