[Da Coyote]

And exactly why would any sane person want a Microsoft app, let alone one of their “upgrades”?

Each day that I work at the office (away from my home’s Microsoft-free environment), I am reminded how back in time Microsoft really is compared to Apple and Linux.

Bleghhhhh!

[null and void]

Yes, but now you can must get the very latest poorly debugged "upgrades", whether you want them or not.

[bethybabes69]

And exactly why would any sane person want a Microsoft app, let alone one of their “upgrades”?

Beats me, but I wouldn't dare put my Mum, or my Aunt solving NIX dependencies when they wanted to intall something new on a beta'ish NIX OS. Hence they just settle for the bland-ola, dictatorat garbage that M$ churn out.
I wouldn't mind if M$ was bleeding edge, but it simply isn't!

I put a few people on a stable install of SuSE 10.3, and within a few months, they're proud they don't use M$ rubbish.

[billorites]

I love XP Pro and after three weeks love Windows 7 beta.

I've installed the Windows 7 beta over XP and Vista on every box in the house and it hasn't missed a beat.

Going to work is now like stepping back in time.

[VanDeKoik]

“Each day that I work at the office (away from my home’s Microsoft-free environment), I am reminded how back in time Microsoft really is compared to Apple and Linux.

Bleghhhhh!”

This has been your MS bash propaganda post of the day.

What MS should do is end support for anyone that wants to stop auto updates. They are under no obligation to support people that let updates, especially critical ones languish and then moan and cry when stuff goes wrong.

[mountainbunny]

Each day that I work at the office (away from my home’s Microsoft-free environment), I am reminded how back in time Microsoft really is compared to Apple and Linux.

Bleghhhhh!

The impetus for the non-geeks in our family to switch to Apple/Linux came last year when I finally became fed up with just how terribly slow and crashy Vista was. I bought a brand new, powerful computer last year, and it was balky under Vista, even though it is supposed to run just fine according to all of the specs. Instead, it crashed and crashed and crashed. I don't think I ever got through a day when it didn't either time-out or crash.

Plus, my desktop had XP, but Microsoft decided not to support that anymore, so then I had two Microsoft products on two computers, both bought and paid for with my hard-earned money, neither of which were or ever even could be optimized, one of which stalled or crashed daily.

At this point, even preschooler's desktop machine uses Ubuntu (Edubuntu). The computer I am writing this on is dual-boot, and it is the only holdout. As soon as I get time to back up all my files, wipe the drives and reinstall, it is going to Linux-only and that will be that.

There may be things I won't be able to run but that'll just have to be too bad. I haven't found anything yet that I need that doesn't have a Linux substitute, so far. I actually like a few things better - the word processor under Linux is awesome.

I don't need anything badly enough to give money to Microsoft and get nothing but a broken machine in return.