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[Rodney]

Seriously, is anyone else getting tired of the microsoft bashing? Yes their software is buggy, yes their software is insecure, but can you honestly say that AmigaOS is less bugy and more secure when Windows has a larger tester/user base and thus more of a chance to find bugs/security flaws?

When someone brings me a peice of software that is bugless i'll declair hell frozen over. But beware, i was tought that hello world programs have bugs Every peice of software has bugs, you just have to look harder and harder to find them the longer you keep fixing them!

Also, if something is marked as stable and/or reliable, all that means is that no major bugs exist that anyone knows of that should keep back the release of some program. I garrentee that AmigaOS will have a lot of bugs after its released, then same goes for morphos, linux, everything!

[Rodney]

No. Bad coding should always result in bad publicity. Microsoft seem never to test their stuff - with their budget bugs like this are absolutely inexcusable, and a prime example why their monopoly is detrimental if not debilitating to the computing scene.

Im not even sure MS have bad programming practices. No one knows that unless they work there.

But even so, MS products are some of the most complicated software in the world. Especialy with their OS. It'd be damn hard to manage a project that large.

Software Engineering is a very new profession in terms of professions. We didnt learn to make bridgets over night and some still fall down. I remember one feel down in tasmania whilst only just being finished or still under construction. There still needs to be better models and designs pattersn worked out.

Microsoft have good products and thats why their the most dominate Software house in the world!

[Rodney]

When i say best software, im not talking about how buggy it is or insecure because all software has these characteristics. Im talking about its features. Also, im not neccessarily talking about their OS. Im talking about MSOffice and other applications. Their Office suit is one reason why their so HUGE. Because that is a good office suit and no other office suit comes close. OO is good but not as good as MSOffice.

The thing is, geeks often run around accusing MS of all the wrong when similar flaws are found in their favourite products but when it happens, they think its ok cause a patch will be out soon.

Linux is a good example of this. Because of linux's fast adoption, more security flaws are being found. The only difference is that the linux community fix these problems very fast indeed. The opensource model is a good model for secure programs and less buggy software but it still has its disadvantages, like those Wayne pointed out a few years ago when trying to find good web-content software.

Most people just bitch about Windows these days because its the fashionable thing to do. When linux is a huge monopolly everyone will prolly flock to BSD and start bitching about linux.