Why I hate Microsoft

"A personal, lengthy, but highly articulate outburst"

Appendix B: links

• Microsoft crash gallery An amusing (or depressing, depending on your point of view) collection of screenshots that illustrate the many ways in which MS products are prone to crash.
• Windows NT and VMS: the rest of the story Is NT really New Technology?
• "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)?" This paper by David A. Wheeler provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures.
• Jerry Pournelle referred to this article on his Chaos Manor website, but disagreed with me about the early history of Microsoft and Windows. Here is a transcript of the discussion that followed. (This is in raw text format because I can't be bothered to convert it to HTML).
• The Netcraft uptime top-50 lists webservers by average uptime. As I write this, Windows NT/2000 and/or IIS aren't even on the list!
• Georgi Guninski is a Bulgarian security consultant, who hunts security leaks for a hobby. Needless to say, Microsoft keeps him quite busy. Don't let his less-than-perfect English fool you; I believe this man holds the unofficial record for discovering MS security leaks. Read it and weep.
• Windows NT vs. CP/M
• This is how one user felt about Microsoft...
• Billgatus of Borg on the cover of Boardwatch magazine
• A new NT 4.0 logo
• What users thought of Bill Gates
• Look here if you thought this page was bad... :-)
• Microslaves
• Windows 2000 buglist
• Microsoft Linux - at last!
• Microsoft acquires de facto monopolies in education Catch 'em while they're young...
• The best bluescreen ever If the Blue Screen Of Death looked like this, I wouldn't mind seeing it so often! :-))
• MSBC The Microsoft Boycott Campaign, including the Superlist of anti-MS websites
• This The is probably the best way to install Windows
• Computer rage Tales of woe from the field
• Remarks by Steve Ballmer. Read a transcript of an interview with Steve Ballmer where he (rather weakly, IMO) tries to defend the new Software Assurance licencing scheme in response to critical questions from his customers.
• This is a must-read for anyone who believes that "Linux is too hard to use".
• Wikipedia even has an entry on the BSOD. Go figure.
• 10,000 bugs away from world domination An ex MS developer hails Open Source
• The Halloween Documents that leaked out of Microsoft in 1998 clearly state Microsoft's own assessment on how Open Source software not only performs and scales much better than Microsoft Products, but also propose that Microsoft attack these superior products by "de-commoditizing" (i.e. sabotaging) protocols. Recommended reading.

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