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Originally Posted by TheCrazedLog
I've been a sysadmin for the past ... (counts in head) 14 years (man....). The IT industry as a whole is moving towards the Software as a service model, presumably because its a good money spinner. Personally I dislike it. It has advantages, but it has disadvantages too.
Its also moving towards this "Fail fast" mentality which is giving me the ... poos... because we get half... rear... patches by Microsoft which break stuff more than they fix. This month has been terrible for patches.
It is for this reason at home that I have moved mostly to Linux. I do have a Windows install which I use for some games, all the rest (including that machine on a separate boot) I use Linux.
Linux does have its own problems, there's no question about it. But at least I can (largely) control the damn thing.
Mac: personally I loathe them. Differences of opinion, personality clashes, I'm a snob, call it what you like. However for some people they are very good. I fear however that Mac has lost its way since Jobs died.
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OS X is pretty good, but even Apple is being a ******* - older Intel based Macs can't upgrade to the latest MacOS - the UEFI bios is used as a weapon by Apple to ensure that you can't upgrade.
GNU/Linux is pretty damn good, has very few problems of its own making. The only real problems are due to 3rd party software developers who only release their software for Windows (and occasionally, OS X). WINE does a good job for most Windows software.
GNU/Linux's problem is threefold:
1) generally speaking, poor UI
2) far too many applications - for each application type (say, web browser) there's so many different apps that it's confusing for newbies. It also dilutes QA/QC and feature development imho, by splintering the developers. I know many open source fans cry that this is its strongest selling point, I personally disagree.
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Originally Posted by Wavytone
Inevitable... Microsoft isn’t good at hardware, and there haven’t really been any killer new feature in operating systems since windows NT.
Without a compelling reason to buy a new OS every few years they’ll go under.
So they’ve created a new feature of their own - and it’s a real “killer” - in the form of a time bomb demanding money and holding your files to ransom.
They aren’t alone in this model, it has been tried before in the 1980s and 1990s by mainframe companies - all of which have died anyway except IBM.
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It's becoming more and more common today. Adobe? The Sky? I personally think it's disgusting. Having to pay a subscription fee for a software dev to fix their bloody buggy software is outrageous and downright illegal. But, as usual, legislators get very confused when you mention software.
There are 2 big operating systems today - Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X. If Microsoft goes this way, you can bet your bottom dollar the greedy buggers at Apple will follow. And with only 2 real competitors, tying up 99% of the market, the rest of the 3rd party software companies will follow suit. Except for open source software of course (GNU GPL'd).
Microsoft has been feeling the waters with MS Office for several years now. It hasn't harmed "sales" of MS Office.
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Originally Posted by Nikolas
This will hopefully be the death nell for this overbloated, virus plagued system, good riddance
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Nope. See above. People are stupid. They'll do it, cos they only know Microsoft and don't wanna learn anything else. Switching to Apple is dangerous - worsening products and product design and QA/QC make their products unfavourable to purchase.
But yes, it is a virus plagued system, and it would be good to see it gone.
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Originally Posted by acropolite
I have to agree, win 8 and 10 were the first nails in the MS coffin, a subscription based model will only drive more users to Linux.
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Nah. Your average person is too stupid, and too lazy to want to figure out how to use Linux. If 3rd party devs don't port their software to Linux, people will not move. Linux has had this issue since the early 00s. it ain't gonna change anytime soon (in fact, Microsoft has deliberately interfered with open source competition at every *single* turn - ODF anyone?).