Comments on: What Microsoft is doing RIGHT and why open-source is LOOSING

By: Omer M

Omer M — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:24:30 +0000

About Visual studio, I can definitely say that Java has some IDEs which are as good as visual studio (some are free, some are not), and sometimes better. That being said, they don’t support C#.

Microsoft will continue to rule the desktop world (considering what happened with vista, its not as obvious as it was a few years ago). About servers.. I’m not so sure.

But you do have to admit that there were huge improvements on the open-source OS area. Ubuntu is much much easier than previous linux distros, and office replacements are pretty good.

By: Ran

Ran — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:15:59 +0000

well.. except for your misprint on “where used to it” (we’re)
I agree, and you should add *Money* in capital letters to the equation.. (I know you’ve mentioned it along the article).
Quality (derived again by the fact that they are big and have loads of money) is another thing , I know that they are not perfect (maybe far from it) but they do have some good products, and if you try to compare those to “open-source” ones you’ll see the difference.
and like you said “force in numbers” they are everywhere, they rule the general public, the masses.

and that’s all I have to say about that.

By: Yaron

Yaron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:15:57 +0000

I’ll give you 3,4,5 and 6, but 1 2 and 7 I got some issues

first when it comes to medium scaled project, which are application lunchers, web browsers and similar, because Microsoft can’t make a good profit out of them, so here the open source communities have an edge, because the people who work on open source are people who have passion for their project, and I personally prefer passion and okay skills, to great skills and disinterest. After all having passion for a project is like being mario on star power, you can run through a hundred Gumbas like they aren’t even there.
and lets be frank even with large scale software the open source has some advantage, ZERO ASS COVERING, people who develop linux spend no, and I mean NO, time writing mails explaining to their boss why they didn’t meet the deadline, or going to a meeting who’s purpose is ment to fill the head man on where the project is, so he can add his insights to a project he hasn’t seen one line of code of. they spend every moment working on a project, by working on the project, not covering their asses or looking for a promotion.
Also, you can say Microsoft can sit on people and has a lot more developers then open source, open source has Linus, the guy kicks all their asses and takes their freaking name, the greatest proof of this is not Linux, it’s git, google it, it proved to me once and for all that someone with a brain that can do what he thinks is best can beat an army that are lead by a duckling. and until you don’t find out about “git” you will not understand why he is worthy of such praise. mind you he wrote git in two weeks, Microsoft failed to do it for 20 years, and so did every other company out there.
Lastly we come to advertising, the problem is most advertising nowadays sucks, because while it does make you know the brand you know nothing about the brand and lets face it Microsoft is big enough and well known enough for this to have no meaningful effect anymore, Vista, well known how many actually upgrade? ‘nuf said.