Microfits - About
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Unlike other Web sites that call for Bill's head or the dismemberment
of Microsoft, I have only two wishes:
- Bill Gates makes a public apology for the massive loss of time,
money, labor, and dignity his designs and schemes have wrought.
- Microsoft publically swears a dedication to produce software that
is secure, non-intrusive, non-destructive to competing software, and
bug-free; and volunteers to be overseen by an independent party to
ensure they are continually working with these ethics.
That's it. I don't mind them being the PC software monopoly, I
just want their damn things to work. I mean, with all their
thousands of employees, and resources, and bought companies, and stockpiled
code, that they still produce and foist on the public utter sewage
they insist is not only of the highest quality, but also what the public
clamors for, is no less than disgusting.
So, in exchange for having to put up with their crap, I demand the right
to point out their ongoing nonsense with satire and relevant news items
in a site I call Microfits, because that's what Microsoft's products give
me: fits.
Resources
Rather than duplicate here what has already been documented about Microsoft's
ineptness and criminal activities, I present the following links if you
care to read more about a certain matter or find support for your views.
- Office 2000: Not Recommended, by Jerry Pournelle
"I don't know what product designer thought [useless animated geegaws]
up, but that person would seem to have a great future in concrete
breaking. I sure wouldn't want him working on any other software."
"Please, Microsoft, give us back our progress reports and error
messages. Don't try to do all our thinking for us. Your programs aren't
that smart and never will be."
"Turning A Powerful Pentium Into A 128K Mac"
- Windows NT Diary
"I feel bad about the whole thing. The customers are complaining, their
apps crash, their machines are slow."
Forced to install Windows crap and feel awful afterwards? Wonder why companies
insist on bleeding time and money? You're not alone!
- Java maven says Windows is uniquely virus susceptible
It's not so much James Gosling's comments as it is Microsoft veep Jim
Allchin's. Things like, "Putting in process restraints on getting code
is better than technology changes in the operating system" as his
response to Microsoft-directed viruses; in other words, they won't make
Windows more secure, they'll just make you do the extra work of examining
everything you might offer Windows so that it won't happily kill itself.
And even after Microsoft's own campus -- running a Windows 2000 beta --
was hit with a virus, Allchin still has the nerve to say, "Security
issues are a compelling reason to upgrade [to Windows 2000]."
Can someone please change this android's logic chip? It appears to be
damaged.
- Terminal Tantrums; 'Computer Rage' Is Widespread, a Study of Users Concludes
"Respondents reported high levels of PC-related abuse by colleagues 'as a result of frustration' with information technology.
The abuses included 'swearing at their PC,' kicking it, 'bullying the IT
department,' absenteeism and bad-mouthing the company they work for."
(Sorry, it's now in washingtonpost.com's pay-to-read archives.)
- Microsoft's Rise to Power
"Many people believe that Bill Gates is a visionary. In fact, Microsoft's current market
position was acquired only through luck and anti-competitive business tactics."
- The (Nearly) Whole Microsoft Catalog
"Some high technology companies may be burdened with the
'not invented here' syndrome, but Microsoft is obviously
not one of them. Less the toiler in the field, Microsoft may
be more accurately pictured as playing the part of the
plantation owner, reaping a harvest based on what others
sow."
- Dirty Tricks
"A grab bag of [Microsoft] deception, dishonesty & high-handed
tactics."
- What's So Bad About Microsoft?
"Why is it that Microsoft's products keep mushrooming in size with each new
release always requiring significantly more disk space and more processing
power than the last time?"
- Cooper Interaction - Philosophy
"Most software needs to be spanked. If your employees or associates balked
and sniped at you with this kind of undisguised derision, they'd be out
the door. Yet, people seem to tolerate bad manners, tacky behavior and shoddy
performance from interactive products as if it went with the territory."
- Microsoft Is Not Done - by Robert Frantz, BYTE.com
"Microsoft makes a change in the
OS, and pins the blame on a
third-party software vendor."
- NetAction's Consumer Choice Campaign
"Bill Gates' Microsoft Corporation ... has achieved such a dominant role
in the global computer industry that it presents a serious threat to
further competition, innovation, and entrepreneurship. ... Bill Gates is the
modern-day equivalent of a Robber Baron, well on his way to creating a
Microsoft monopoly."
- Innovation vs. InnovaSHAM: Microsoft's Soft Soap (by SJS Web Hack)
"Microsoft has no interest in product improvement. Instead, it merely
concentrates on market share and leaches off the success of the
originals, in some cases even dangerously."
- Yamoo! Articles
"This page is a catch-all for sites that provide information, news, and
opinions against Microsoft. Articles and editorials from well-known and
not-so-well-known writers and publications are listed here."
Voluntary disclosure note: Yamoo kindly links to Microfits items on
this page and others. I've included them here not because of that, but
because their page offers an extensive listing of serious articles.
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