Microsoft Toilet
A couple of good reasons why Microsoft is toilet.
PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column
Respected tech journalist Robert X Cringely on how Microsoft can bugger up an open standard for the rest of us, namely USB. If they can take their 'driver signing' idea and apply it to USB protocols, they can milk licencing fees, and explicitly lock-out competing operating systems. Like Linux and Mac OSX, then.
Net security threats growing fast
Note: not Linux PCs, or Macs, or *BSD PCs, but Windows PCs. 30,000 of them a day being added to networks designed to send spam. Microsoft again.
The drivers that Microsoft supply with Windows XP are also toilet. Their HP Deskjet drivers work perfectly provided you don't want more than one copy of anything printed, and the drivers for the onboard Ethernet on one of the PCs we have here at work are great provided you don't mind it deciding to ignore the essentially unique hardware address fundamental to the design of Ethernet, and allow it to install a driver that sets the hardware address to 00:00:00:00:00:00.
Toilet, I say.
2 Comments:
that's great and everything, bruv, but for the people (and me) who don't know what the f**k your on about, do you rekkon you can put that into plain, bogstandard english. also, does it effect our pc?
It effectively allows Microsoft to decide what you can and can't do with anything you plug into your PC. Things are fine right now but you could find that, come the next itteration of Windows, that you're no longer able to write to the memory card on your digital camera and can only read data from it. Anyone who dares run a non-Microsoft operating system could very well be rogered up the Marmite factory.
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