Microsoft Cons

Microsoft a U.S. security threat

Inevitably, infoterrorists and criminals will take advantage of flaws in the gigantic Microsoft operating systems that are on their way to becoming the engines for running most of our information infrastructure.

http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/9811307DD2

How many Win95 bugs did Microsoft admit to fixing in Win98? Over 3,000? What kind of amateur-hour design and testing process lets 3,000 bugs slip through?

http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/stories/all/0,6605,347528,00.htmlk

Adobe speaks about Windows:

"And the Windows customers value different things: The first thing is
integration. Because anytime you install something new on the Windows
platform you risk spending the next five or six hours trying to figure out
what happened." -- John Warnock (CEO of Adobe

ZDNet's Anchordesk has posted a list of products they hate. Most of them
are Windows products. Some interesting choices including Microsoft
Outlook.

Here are a few that merit a dishonorable mention:

* Microsoft Network is too @#$% hard to install and uninstall. And
uninstalling hoses every other application that uses ActiveX.
* Me-too portal designs for having no focus and no style.
* Web sites with pop-up windows. If you're going to bring up a second
browser window, say so on the button before I click.
* Any notebook computer heavier than five pounds.
* Microsoft Access because... well, just because.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2607.html

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