Microsoft Sucks
posted on 2005-06-25 at 00:13:58 by Joel Ross
Got your attention, didn't it? Anyway, I read this post by Alex Bosworth, where he knocks Microsoft pretty hard, and some of the knocks are definitely unjustified. The stuff he talks about reminds me of a post I made back in November about a conversation with a vendor who said .NET is dead. It’s not exactly the same, but it's similar.
Sometimes, people's hatred for Microsoft blinds their judgement. For example, Alex says "no one wants to run Windows servers" but that's not what I'm seeing. In March, I helped launch a big site that runs on Windows servers. I've worked with another client who sells warehouse management software, and their latest version will require a Windows server for all of their clients, and everyone they show the software to is very excited about it.
If you provide a good product, people will put the necessary hardware in their datacenter, regardless of what the hardware is.
He mentioned that Microsoft doesn't embrace standards, which I find odd, since today, Microsoft is announcing how they'll be supporting RSS (an open standard), and isn't C# and the whole CLR an open standard? How would Mono be around if it wasn't? And talk to the IE 7 team about how they'll be supporting standards.
AJAX is another thing he touches on - he says it was a Microsoft thing that didn't garner any support until Firefox started supporting it. So, Microsoft is to blame because Firefox/Mozilla is 7 years behind the curve?
I'm not going to respond to every point, because I can't speak to every point, but some of his points are just wrong.
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