Microsoft Is Down!! Wut!!!

[~god~]

ooohh this feels good. uuhh this whole week has been like a long orgasm. microsoft servers have been takin it up the ass. JJYYEEAA! sorry,.. i just hate microsoft.
and as of this second, the official microsoft servers are down.


be smart.
get linux.
be cool.


Respect. [what a pointless thread, sorry, just had to mention this.]

[Lostcause]

Good call god...but most of the threads in the forum are pointless. So post it up right?

I'm not a huge fan of microsoft...its just. I'm too friken lazy to look into the linux option. I guess I would be 'being smart' cause I'd actually have to use my brains.

I guess I feel like I spent so much time learning how to fix microsoft and all their problems for customers and my mom and such that I just don't have the energy to learn what linux is all about.....I mean look at it this way..

The next post in here could be laughing and pointing at me because Linux is exactly like windows.....I wouldn't know.

So I guess maybe its time....Where do you get Linux do you have to rip it or do you have to buy it or what? Borrow? Steal.
hook me up man?

(See your threads not totally pointless)

[inkster]

i'm kind of curious why their servers are down. is it because of the sheer demand on them as a result of the blaster virus? it it something to do with the blackout? were they actually a victim of the virus itself (unlikely)? inquiring minds...

[rawb]

the virus is set to packet ms today and tomorrow, so it's pretty understandable.

i mean OMG I H8 MS MS TOTALLY IS BAD MS SUX LOLOLOL USE LUNIX! LUNIX! LUNIX! PENGWIN REVOLUTIONNNN!@!@#!@#!@#!!!!!1111 LIIINUUUUXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!111 :toasted:

[MC Hammered]

I'm so glad that I kept a copy fo DOS 6.22 for days like today.

Security via obselecence.

[inkster]

Originally posted by rawb
the virus is set to packet ms today and tomorrow, so it's pretty understandable.

makes sense. it's back up along with WU.

it's kind of funny how nearly all the prominent articles on it are security related now, when a day or so ago there were only one or two small links. i guess they were expecting everyone to have been in their right minds and applied the patch? the page reflects the urgency now, anyways. in some cases, it's almost to a comical extent, with a subscript that seems to suggest the authors had 'HOLY SHIT' going through their minds while writing the articles.

i can't even imagine what it's like in redmond right now.

[Nurse_Rachet]

I fucking hate Linux, but whatever *sigh*

Bill is listening to The Launch remix... still.
Sitting on the shitter, flipping through Bawx - The Adult Magazine featuring globs of pussy with slime trailing off into the nether regions.

[Tux]

it was probably down because of the blackout. and linux is good. use it.

[inkster]

Originally posted by elguato
I tottaly like Microsoft. From a business standpoint, they are king. They created a product that today holds major marketshare among ALL computers worldwide. That right there is success.

from a business standpoint, they're an amazing success. but from an end-users standpoint?

I like their windows XP pro, and win2k pro products.. of course they had some bad days with win 98 and winME being so shitty (me expecially) but its okay, everyone needs to learn somehow.

too bad it took them 20 years or so to learn. :) but yeah, xp and 2k are pretty nifty.

You guys say linux is good, use linux... well for most people linux is not an option as linux does not have any of the software people grew up with, and got accustomed to.. (no microsoft word, no MSN messenger, no symantec norton antivirus, or system works, no visio)...

the software is just a tool. it is not an experience within itself. that being said, there are many comparable (often better) applications that match up to those of windows.

- MSOffice has Microsoft Word, AbiWord, KOffice, StarOffice
- MSNM, ICQ, AIM, Jabber (and so many more) has Gaim.
- Norton Antivirus doesn't have an equivalent since it's nearly impossible to get a virus on linux. your average user doesn't have the permissions that would allow changes in the system. keep out of root when you don't have to be, and you're fine for the most part.

there are more, of course. there's quite an extensive list of equivalencies online, but i can't find it right now.

yes I know there are many other software alternatives that do all the same things the software does that is only for windows, but you cannot expect people to re-learn everything. People are lazy, they are stupid.. they are not going to want to learn something that is not SIMPLE & EASY.

the re-'learning' of the comparable programs is an irrelevancy. they're all menu/gui based and any who could figure out the windows program in the first place can figure out the gpl version of it. file-save as means the same thing anywhere you go.

you have to also remember that people already do this all the time. ever seen someone use a mac for the first time or vice versa? they figure it out pretty quick.

now, if you what you meant by that is all the adminning that one has to do, i'd suggest you go download a copy of mandrake. it's so completely easy to use that i'd be pretty confident in letting my mom install it. after a half hour of that, one's pretty much good to go. it's just that easy. if you don't want to mess around with things, you don't have to. and if you do, there's so much information to help you out you'll rarely walk away from a problem without a resolution.

if i was a coder (programmer) maybe it would be my choice of OS for the desktop, but since i mainly use computer for leisure and business communication, ill stick with Windows

you're dead right on this one. windows is still the best choice for games, and office is still the de facto standard in businesses throughout north america. unless more games get ported to linux, or microsoft changes the license on the .doc format, this won't change for some time. in which case, windows is definately the best choice for you.

however, if you like to tinker with things, and enjoy a mind boggling array of choice, then linux makes a pretty neat os.

so in conclusion, to each their own. :)

[rawb]

just an aside, to blame this on microsoft is pretty silly, anyone who's hit windows update in the last two months was patched. its more of a case of people that dont care about security than a company.

microsoft can identify the problem and fix it but it's up to the end user to help themselves.

[Crazy Dave]

^ i was not patched,,, go figure. I up date weekly.

purerave is still down :soak: booooo

[dfltr]

Originally posted by elguato

if i was a coder (programmer) maybe it would be my choice of OS for the desktop, but since i mainly use computer for leisure and business communication, ill stick with Windows

in my best Ewan Bremner voice: see, my pleasure... is other people's leisure.

i'm a coder, and i still use Win2k for my desktop out of laziness. if i can find a copy of wine for my linux box to try shit out, things might change. for the moment though, i want my main computer to be a refuge of easiness... hacking linux and bsd is good, but not when you just want to get something goddamn done.

[Hot Karl]

go 1337 hax0rz go.