you are just talking about the BackOffice.
In the FrontOffice/UI, Office is just more than typing memo's. Just because people buy it and not use it to it's fullest capability, it doesn't mean its functionality is invalid by calling them crap.
that's like, calling car body panel is a crap. many of the car's features aren't necessary. Yet, they are there and you pay for them.
Firefox doesn't block popups. I am just telling you that it is a fact. It doesn't block 100%. I go to the drudgereport.com and i get popups. I have all the popup block option checked. I get popups. In IE, I have set drudgereport.com as untrusted site, where Javascript isn't launched.
What people decide to do with the OCX is their thing. Microsoft gave a powerful capabilty to its developers with OCX. Microsoft made is more secure but again, it's difficult if one is always in defensive mode. Therefore, i think Microsoft preemptively strike against the mal-coders.
Hey, if firefox can't do the CSS, and all the applications are developed with XSLT and doesn't display properly, firefox has a big problem. It is what it is. Firefox has a problem. Therefore, i know what sites i shouldn't go to when i use firefox, period.
LINUX = COMMUNIST
I'm failing to understand that one.
I have been in Microsoft-Hell for weeks.
But I got Firefox yesterday, and the system works great today.
I gather you work for Gates. LOL.
Linux = communist. well thats a bit of a leap dont you think? considering Homeland security moved to Linux, hardly a bastion of COMMUNISM!
okay you are on a conservative website but my understanding of communism is only ONE choice..I wonder who offers that?
as for Linux hasn't cracked any dent on Windows market share.
hmmmm, well i beg to differ. I think if you check your facts on market share of servers, Microsoft are and should continue to be concerned. As i recall Bill Gates emailed a note stating this fact. As for front end market share, yes it is low, but it is low for exactly the reason of this post..there was limited offerings. it is still in the early adoption stage for client side usage.
The issue of Linux is perception and market clout. Microsoft spend BILLIONS on marketing each year. that is difficult to beat.
as for your comment about working for IBM...i am quite suprised by that but i will take you at your word
however...
http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/
strikes me as peculiar but whod a thunk it!.
and yes i realise that they work with microsoft but it
seems like and certainly my experience of working with IBM and i do that quite a bit is that they are very positive on linux. Are they not one of the major companies pushing it? In fact did they not collaborate last year on trying to push LINUX on the client side?
the harsh facts is that linux is percieved as difficult to use. that is a perception and incidentally one touted my microsoft at every available opportunity.. if we asked people here what they think the interface is like.. i suspect the majority would think that it is command line prompt. as you well know this is NOT the case.
frightening people with popup stories is also something i think you should retract. The reality is IE is much more vulnerable to attack then mozilla or firefox. If you care to analyse most of the problems people have it is IE hijacking. Personally i think this is to do with IE being forced and due to limited choice...something i think a second offering will help solve.
Sure, microsoft is huge. personally i think , like all companies, they develop some good software, and some very poor software. the manner in which they try to dominate a market segment is not good for anyone and in a perverse way i dont believe its good for microsoft in the long term..
Personally, i think you have an axe to grind here, jamming an opinion like LINUX=COMMUNIST is a very poor way of doing it.
if you want to start trading facts then lets roll...if you want to trade insults then dont bother replying to this.
Your prejudices are showing. Where do people get these absurd ideas? Computers are apolitical. Use the right tool for the job. From some this means Windows for others it means Unix. Just because *you* don't like Unix doesn't mean that it isn't the right tool for some other people. You realize this website runs on Linux. Are you going to call the proprietorship commies, too? Sheesh.