[Off-Topic] look what microsoft just gave me :)

[CwF]

excellent!

I still have some kick butt XP systems. Some say "Linux is great for older computers". Sure. It's the other way around! What to do with the retired Debian machines (because they keep getting better), ah, throw XP on it.

[kent_dorfman766]

Well that is kind of ballsy, showing it off on a Linux forum. LOL I don't know whether to admire the gumption, or chastize you. I'll have to think about that.

[None1975]

In my humble opinion, Microsoft products, like the company itself, should be avoided at all costs. You don't need to have anything to do with these satanists.

[trinidad]

https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/pages/mvp-award-update

Pushing 5000 now. The Linux in hyper-v and the other Linux categories are kinda funny since most of development was done for free by Linux developers and ripped off by MS developers who got paid. The culture remains ugly regardless of claims of success by MS.

TC

[donald]

I cannot see the image?

[Random_Troll]

I cannot see the image?

The OP has been removed. I think the poster was upset by some of the comments, which is a shame.

[BBQdave]

I cannot see the image?

I'm not sure why the OP is gone too. It was a good post and interesting topic

I've tried Windows. It was a lot of work to secure and manage the system. For work, I have to use Outlook (web) to check work email. Outlook works fine when I'm home checking work email on my GNU/Linux machine

If you learn and use MS Office, it's a powerful tool. And I can understand learning the system MS Office runs on, Windows. And I know my following statement will fire up some folks, but if your in the financial world your using Excel. Nothing comes close to Excel.

Alas, I am not in the financial world and my tool of choice is GNU/Linux

[kent_dorfman766]

I had no issue with the OP...but kind of tongue-n-cheek had to rib him...On a more serious note, the reasons the best developers hate the M$ ecosystem are because they dumb down the experience and restrict creativity. Just left a project where I refused to use their locked down windoze craptop to do any development on. It's a slap in the face for guys my age, who have been programming longer than these kiddo IT twits have even been alive, to be told that we are a security risk. I take it as a personal insult and if you won't let me manage my dev environment then don't even ask me to work for/with you. Windoze is completely out of hand and contributes to a universal decline in creative productivity that favors business hype above true engineering.

[BBQdave]

Windoze is completely out of hand and contributes to a universal decline in creative productivity that favors business hype above true engineering.

I agree. The combination of MS Office (especially Excel) and common business platform OS - Windows, allows Microsoft to stay relevant.

Their anchor software is MS Office. And they develop future consumers with school function and gaming. Most kids have (free) student Outlook and student Office. And most kids are on a Windows gaming machine with Steam loaded for entertainment.

Stateless computing and the Web are changing some of the MS dominance. At my job, MS Outlook is required for work communication. I do not have a work computer. I access MS Outlook with my personal device. So the organization has a license fee for Outlook, but no license fee for Windows OS and no lease (or purchase) of a Windows machine.

MS no longer dominates the hardware, OS or applications. They are hanging on with Office and Outlook.

[kent_dorfman766]

MS no longer dominates the hardware, OS or applications. They are hanging on with Office and Outlook.

And there is just another evil entity waiting in the shadows. Look at android and IOS...same thing: designed to data mine and make the "user" part of their product portfolio.