Quote Originally Posted by ironchef
Why do people shit on Microsoft? I'd challenge you to come up with a better o/s and change the world of technology. Oh wait you can't, you're some scrub on IA....
This is why microsoft is shit!

Windows Vista = Beta Test for Windows 7

Beta Tests are either open or closed, either way they are supposed to be FREE!

Microsoft has been selling Vista for the last 3 years now, advertising it as a complete and fully functional OS. Which it was not, up untill SP2, which came out only months before Windows 7. Als attaches to that OS several root key applications that monitor your activities, which then Microsoft gathers and uses at statistical and marketing purposes. (which generates for them a massive profit.)

Ok so releasing a broken OS beta test and charging people upward $120 for it. Collecting usage, hardware, and browsing data of individuals with out authorization= VERY SHADY BUSINESS PRACTICES.

Now considering Microsoft owns almost 90% of the market shares in the home user demographic, makes them almost a complete monopoly.

Monopoly+Shade Business Eithics+No Respect for the Consumer=Win For Microsoft

but FAIL for the end user.