It's a liberal cesspool of pro-death, pro-fascism, pro-Obama maggots that believe they own your hardware.
> It’s a liberal cesspool of pro-death, pro-fascism,
> pro-Obama maggots that believe they own your hardware.
This is true for Microsoft, Apple AND Google.
Of the three, Google is the worst, because its Android OS is really just a phishing expedition. Don’t you know why you must have a Google account to operate your Android appliance? Virtually every keystroke you make is echoed to a Google archive. Even worse, Google freely hands over data to the communist US government.
Buy a computer that has a flavor of Linux pre-installed, or buy one without an OS and install Linux on it.
As much as is humanly possible, do NOT do business with companies that support all the things you oppose and oppose all the things you support.
Are you talking about MicroSloth, Abfal, or Scroogle?
I have mixed feelings on Microsoft -- they have been very instrumental in getting things standardized to some degree, and have provided market pressure to other companies spurring innovation. On the other hand, they push out inferior and buggy products (Visual Studio** vs, say, Delphi 7 for IDE [sadly Delphi went toward VS in its IDE UI {especially help-system} rather than improving on their superior design]; or C/C++ instead of Ada for the API*). So I believe it's not exactly just to not acknowledge the good they have done; that said, I do agree that the push toward "own everything"*** is detestable.
I have a generally positive attitude towards Windows itself [though I'll agree 8 is a failure that provides me no incentive to upgrade] -- as opposed to things like the linux [GNU] toolchain†, where it always feels like the system is working against me rather than helping me to get things done. {I get the same feeling when I use a C++ compiler instead of my preferred Ada or Delphi/Pascal.} That alone convinces me that the "throw everything you knew away" ideology of 8 is the same as working against me.
* Visual Studio is easy to crash/confuse when porting a large project to a new computer with a new/different version of VS.
** Ada allows for the declaration of subtypes, which can restrict the valid values of variables/parameters. This means that if the API for a function needs non-negative values you could use Natural and let the parameter-passing raise an exception when invalid values are passed in. Additionally, using Ada for the underlying kernel would likely have drastically altered (1) the perception that Windows was weak to things like buffer-overflows {Ada allows for proper Array index checks} and (2)the early multitasking system to be much nicer than it originally was {using the rendezvous instead}.
*** The "own everything" is certainly not limited to Microsoft. I have a friend who left Google because they instituted a new policy/contract which effectively stated that all work by an employee was the company's -- he happened to have developed a method to detect cancer from MRIs with a better accuracy than most Radiologists -- and Google was trying to basically steal it. (Fortunately he had documentation that he'd been working on the method for years before he joined Google.)
† Why do you never work, autoconf? Why?
No really, tell us how you feel! JK, I feel the same way. What really chaps my hide is when they think they're entitled to so much as one CPU cycle or one byte of [your] RAM to protect THEMSELVES from YOU!! After you paid for the stuff!