Windows Vista

[tekproxy]

I love Windows XP and Windows Vista. Not for my own use, of course, but it makes me money and provides me with hours, sometimes days of entertainment.

I fix computers on the side for extra cash, which comes in handy and I like to work. Without Windows XP or Windows Vista, I'd have a lot less calls. About 50% of my calls are because of bloated and broken software--like Norton Anti-Virus.

Also, before the slammer worm, me and a friend had the dcom exploit code. We got it so it wouldn't crash the machines when ran, so it was a quick nmap -sS -p139,5000 on a few big subnets and then a quick shell file to exploit them all, a quick batch file to get them to FTP to our server to download and run whatever we wanted, you get the idea. Any Windows 2000 or XP machine was exploitable, and Microsoft did very little to fix it for quite some time... Intentionally, I'd suspect.

Nearly everything Microsoft does makes great business sense. The best product or system is rarely the one used by most. Organizations interested in power or money stand to gain quite a bit by being clever and crafty, so they are. Microsoft intentionally makes bloated and inferior products, partially because they rush to meet deadlines (this 2006 was another 3-year "spike"), but also for other very clever reasons. I'm sure most of you have figured out that crappy bloated software requires better hardware. Hardware companies can chose between selling their computers with Vista, which forces people to upgrade more, or selling their computers without Windows.

Yeah, things may change some day in favor of Apple, Linux or ReactOS, but until then I'll run what I find useful. You'll never change anyone's mind about how good an operating system is because different people like different things. If you say you think Windows Vista is good, you're right. If you say it's total crap, you're also right.

[Barbeirosa]