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>Once a virus got on your machine, that was pretty much it. And Microsoft wasn't doing much to stop the infestation. For a long time they didn't even see it as

>Once a virus got on your machine, that was pretty much it. And Microsoft wasn't doing much to stop the infestation. For a long time they didn't even see it as their problem. In retrospect, it was the computer equivalent of Three Mile Island or Chernobyl. They want to protect users with Secure Boot, and still they get a lot of crap for it. Remember Palladium? That would've stopped malware in its tracks. It was railed against big time, and later the same people gave rave reviews the iPad/iPhone more even though Apple implemented the Palladium spec pretty much to the letter. Also, wasn't Miguel supposed to be Microsoft's shill or something for introducing Mono for Linux and pushing C# on Linux and Mac? Now here he is, selling a Mac! Maybe he was just a technology lover all along! I am sure the anti-Microsoft folks' heads are exploding with the contradictions!

rbanffy 14y ago
> They want to protect users with Secure Boot, and still they get a lot of crap for it. No. That's only to make it difficult/impossible to boot anything that wasn't signed with a Microsoft key. It protects against one kind of rootkit and that's it. > Apple implemented the Palladium spec pretty much to the letter. Apple wasn't trying to force the PC industry to implement Palladium (or UEFI Secure Boot). If you buy Apple, you are buying Apple. When I buy Dell, I don't expect to be forced to also buy Microsoft (although I often am). > Also, wasn't Miguel supposed to be Microsoft's shill or something for introducing Mono for Linux and pushing C# on Linux and Mac? People change careers. > Maybe he was just a technology lover all along! Maybe I just don't agree with his taste for technologies.
martinced 14y ago
He wasn't a technology lover. He tried to poison Linux using Mono and that turned out to be an utter fiasco. So he failed in destroying Linux and he's pissed that he failed. As a result he's now trying to cast some more bad light on Linux: this time Linux isn't an OS whose purpose would be to run CLR app but an inferior desktop/laptop app which shouldn't be used because OS X would be superior. I'm a very long time Linux user (since the Slackware) days and honestly I've got zero love for that person (and, no, I'm not a Gnome user).

rbanffy 14y ago

> They want to protect users with Secure Boot, and still they get a lot of crap for it. No. That's only to make it difficult/impossible to boot anything that wasn't signed with a Microsoft key. It protects against one kind of rootkit and that's it. > Apple implemented the Palladium spec pretty much to the letter. Apple wasn't trying to force the PC industry to implement Palladium (or UEFI Secure Boot). If you buy Apple, you are buying Apple. When I buy Dell, I don't expect to be forced to also buy Microsoft (although I often am). > Also, wasn't Miguel supposed to be Microsoft's shill or something for introducing Mono for Linux and pushing C# on Linux and Mac? People change careers. > Maybe he was just a technology lover all along! Maybe I just don't agree with his taste for technologies.

martinced 14y ago

He wasn't a technology lover. He tried to poison Linux using Mono and that turned out to be an utter fiasco. So he failed in destroying Linux and he's pissed that he failed. As a result he's now trying to cast some more bad light on Linux: this time Linux isn't an OS whose purpose would be to run CLR app but an inferior desktop/laptop app which shouldn't be used because OS X would be superior. I'm a very long time Linux user (since the Slackware) days and honestly I've got zero love for that person (and, no, I'm not a Gnome user).