Comments on: Microsoft tries to bribe Best Buy employees to learn lies about Linux http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ttx http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-244462 ttx Fri, 14 May 2010 19:44:39 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-244462 microsoft lied and got away with it and now there is not one good windows in the stores microsoft hurt it own self windows 7 sold a lot because windows xp is not there they said windows xp was safe but now windows vista and windows 7 (vista 7 ) is called hacker heaven now these windows are so unsafe and they will not run any of the game microsoft says it will they just go back to the desktop or crash or restarts the computer and they are slower the windows xp i had a new computer with windows 7 on it and it was so slow so i put xp on it and boy let me tell you it was fast fast it do take a little bit but it work right not like the windows 7 shit microsoft lied and got away with it and now there is not one good windows in the stores microsoft hurt it own self windows 7 sold a lot because windows xp is not there they said windows xp was safe but now windows vista and windows 7 (vista 7 ) is called hacker heaven now these windows are so unsafe and they will not run any of the game microsoft says it will they just go back to the desktop or crash or restarts the computer and they are slower the windows xp i had a new computer with windows 7 on it and it was so slow
so i put xp on it and boy let me tell you it was fast fast it do take a little bit but it work right not like the windows 7 shit

]]> By: Ivan_PSP http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-211011 Ivan_PSP Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:09:12 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-211011 Rimmer: Most people have pirated OS install since is so damn easy to get and better. Linux is good for hackers i think. But for regular people Windows is the best at basically everything. Is the easier to use it has over billions on applications already. Rimmer:
Most people have pirated OS install since is so damn easy to get and better. Linux is good for hackers i think. But for regular people Windows is the best at basically everything. Is the easier to use it has over billions on applications already.

]]> By: Aquaadverse http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-211004 Aquaadverse Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:19:00 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-211004 @Ralph Most of issue with Windows is from running the user with admin rights. The most popular FOSS packages also run on Windows. If you don't think a script can be executed on a 'nix box popping up a query for your sudo or root password think again. Security on any box is an illusion. If you stick to the repositories you're good, but if you install plugins and extensions in Firefox or run Java, install .deb or .rpm packages you have exposure. Websites are defaced on Apache servers all the time primarily because people who don't know what they are doing don't change default passwords or other needed hardening gets skipped. Most hacking is done for profit not for bragging rights. You can see OSX is starting to get more attention from hackers as the marketshare rises. @Rimmer On the other hand Linux supports most hardware now, if not completely. Wireless remains the biggest irritation, getting 802.11N working is a PITA. 3D graphics acceleration usually requires closed binaries. If you could get Linux preinstalled much of this would be moot. I could hand you a Window's OEM disk and you can easily have Windows tell you it can't find drivers and a bunch of yellow triangles in the hardware. That's splitting hairs and doesn't really matter to end users, but Windows is just as dependent on hardware vendors. Online banking is browser dependent. I had issues with Firefox on Windows with some secure sites a few years back but I run Linux as my personal OS and all of those types of issues are basically over. I can and do run Office on my Linux rig because I get documents and spreadsheets that requires it. I could run it in a virtual machine but I don't need it often enough. Otherwise I use Open Office for general work and have little problem with exchanging info with others. Evolution does 99% of what Outlook does including syncing with Exchange. I sync with my Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro. The number of people using AutoCad is pretty small. If you need to run CAD or Final Cut Pro than Linux isn't an option. My wife, 75 year old Mother-in-law and 80 year old Father are all running Linux and wouldn't have any idea of how to tinker. I set them up because I was tired of continually tinkering and cleaning crap off the machines since I couldn't get them to stop installing web crapware DRM files are so 20th Century and going away. @Ralph
Most of issue with Windows is from running the user with admin rights. The most popular FOSS packages also run on Windows.

If you don’t think a script can be executed on a ‘nix box popping up a query for your sudo or root password think again. Security on any box is an illusion.

If you stick to the repositories you’re good, but if you install plugins and extensions in Firefox or run Java, install .deb or .rpm packages you have exposure. Websites are defaced on Apache servers all the time primarily because people who don’t know what they are doing don’t change default passwords or other needed hardening gets skipped.

Most hacking is done for profit not for bragging rights. You can see OSX is starting to get more attention from hackers as the marketshare rises.

@Rimmer
On the other hand Linux supports most hardware now, if not completely. Wireless remains the biggest irritation, getting 802.11N working is a PITA. 3D graphics acceleration usually requires closed binaries.

If you could get Linux preinstalled much of this would be moot. I could hand you a Window’s OEM disk and you can easily have Windows tell you it can’t find drivers and a bunch of yellow triangles in the hardware. That’s splitting hairs and doesn’t really matter to end users, but Windows is just as dependent on hardware vendors.

Online banking is browser dependent. I had issues with Firefox on Windows with some secure sites a few years back but I run Linux as my personal OS and all of those types of issues are basically over.

I can and do run Office on my Linux rig because I get documents and spreadsheets that requires it. I could run it in a virtual machine but I don’t need it often enough.

Otherwise I use Open Office for general work and have little problem with exchanging info with others.

Evolution does 99% of what Outlook does including syncing with Exchange. I sync with my Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro. The number of people using AutoCad is pretty small. If you need to run CAD or Final Cut Pro than Linux isn’t an option.

My wife, 75 year old Mother-in-law and 80 year old Father are all running Linux and wouldn’t have any idea of how to tinker. I set them up because I was tired of continually tinkering and cleaning crap off the machines since I couldn’t get them to stop installing web crapware

DRM files are so 20th Century and going away.

]]> By: Rimmer http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-210850 Rimmer Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:39:10 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-210850 Ralph, firstly you don't need to spend a penny on AV software or Firewall software. There are plenty of good, free solutions out there. After that, safe surfing is the smart thing to do, regardless of what OS you run. If you are a consumer or student you can get the MS office package for less than $100, not just word, or even better, switch to Open Office for free. Memory leaks haven't been an issue since Vista, and WGA is only an issue if you have a pirated OS. How about with Linux wondering if you can get drivers for your hardware? particularly if you have a laptop? Or how do you deal with DRM encoded files? Or how the problems people have logging into online banking with linux? And I won't even talk about trying to get professional software to run on Linux, which many people have to use on a regular basis such as any adobe software, or cad packages like autocad, or Sage, or Outlook and so on. Linux is great for people who either like to tinker with their PCs or for people who use basic internet browsing and the odd letter writing. For everyone else the only option is either Mac or windows. Ralph, firstly you don’t need to spend a penny on AV software or Firewall software. There are plenty of good, free solutions out there. After that, safe surfing is the smart thing to do, regardless of what OS you run. If you are a consumer or student you can get the MS office package for less than $100, not just word, or even better, switch to Open Office for free. Memory leaks haven’t been an issue since Vista, and WGA is only an issue if you have a pirated OS.
How about with Linux wondering if you can get drivers for your hardware? particularly if you have a laptop? Or how do you deal with DRM encoded files? Or how the problems people have logging into online banking with linux? And I won’t even talk about trying to get professional software to run on Linux, which many people have to use on a regular basis such as any adobe software, or cad packages like autocad, or Sage, or Outlook and so on. Linux is great for people who either like to tinker with their PCs or for people who use basic internet browsing and the odd letter writing. For everyone else the only option is either Mac or windows.

]]> By: Ralph http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-210847 Ralph Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:56:35 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-210847 Fact is more and more people are turning to Linux everyday, many Window users are doing dual booting with both Linux and windows. With Linux there are no concerns with expensive anti-virus software slowing down your system and draining your wallet. Too bad Windows never solved that problem. No need to spend $1800 on a new Mac when Linux will do just fine. Besides being free, there are thousand of free apps that run on Linux...yep...just free for the asking. I typical Linux install takes 25 minutes, Windows can take one hour to almost 21 hours (per a article on Windows Blorge) after all the updates and security patches (and there are many of them!) ........are finally done. Then cough up another $80 for antivirus (per year) and another $150 to $600 for MS Word after you drain your wallet...the only concern you have is watching what websites you click on, what email you open up, memory leak, WGA, system restore. Linux..there are none of those concerns.... Maybe we can see why Microsoft is so concerned about Linux....and THAT is the sincerest for of flattery. Fact is more and more people are turning to Linux everyday, many Window users are doing dual booting with both Linux and windows.

With Linux there are no concerns with expensive anti-virus software slowing down your system and draining your wallet. Too bad Windows never solved that problem.

No need to spend $1800 on a new Mac when Linux will do just fine. Besides being free, there are thousand of free apps that run on Linux…yep…just free for the asking.

I typical Linux install takes 25 minutes, Windows can take one hour to almost 21 hours (per a article on Windows Blorge) after all the updates and security patches (and there are many of them!) ……..are finally done.

Then cough up another $80 for antivirus (per year) and another $150 to $600 for MS Word
after you drain your wallet…the only concern you have is watching what websites you click on, what email you open up, memory leak, WGA, system restore.

Linux..there are none of those concerns….

Maybe we can see why Microsoft is so concerned about Linux….and THAT is the sincerest for of flattery.

]]> By: Ivan_PSP http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-210831 Ivan_PSP Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:03:31 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-210831 Windows is my favorite OS is the only thing i like from Microsoft i hate Linux is too complicated to use and boring. As for MAC I'm not that rich to buy that. I want to buy a MAC one day. Because it looks so damn awesome in everything. Windows is my favorite OS is the only thing i like from Microsoft i hate Linux is too complicated to use and boring. As for MAC I’m not that rich to buy that. I want to buy a MAC one day. Because it looks so damn awesome in everything.

]]> By: Ralph http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-210809 Ralph Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:13:27 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/14/microsoft-tries-to-bribe-best-buy-employees-to-learn-lies-about-linux/#comment-210809 Why is Microsoft so concerned with Linux' supposed 1% market share? Why would Microsoft even care? Unless of Linux IS a concern to Microsoft....maybe they know something we don't? Why is Microsoft so concerned with Linux’ supposed 1% market share? Why would Microsoft even care?

Unless of Linux IS a concern to Microsoft….maybe they know something we don’t?

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