| Why We Hate "Microsoft" and Think You should Too... | ||
| Topic | Reason | Example |
| Product Activation | It Sucks ! - Microsoft makes other businesses think this
is the right way to do business, Read the Hole Story and You'll See -> |
Friend or Foe |
| PNG Standards by Maverick |
When MS released Internet Explorer, they desided to make there own standard for how alpha transparency would work from the Internet ignoring standards set by a society that created the Internet and behind peoples back used it for their icons in Windows XP | PNG Example |
"Undocumented Calls" |
Microsoft the Monopolist | Undocumented Calls |
| "DOS Shehanigans" by david@amazing.com |
Microsoft the Monopolist | DOS Shehanigans |
| Here's what Forrester Research said about Microsoft and standards: |
Why Microsoft "Standards" Do Not Help * Work only for Windows (thus leaving out all other systems that do
not run Windows and are unlikely to do so in the future) |
This is hardly in the best interest of IT world wide. |
| HTML ( HyperText Markup Language ) | IE's default behavior is to quietly modify the content of third-party web pages. This default can be changed by doing something in the View->Encoding menu that many users will find obscure and few will bother with, but that's not the point. The point is that without such tweaking a user will never see the original directive! And since many web developers reuse code or at least look at it (many of us built their first web page by modifying existing code found on the web) this platform-specific nonsense will propagate. Granted, it's a small detail, but it's another typical step in spreading the notion that "all the world is a Windows PC". | Microsoft's contempt for HTML and related global standards
is nicely illustrated by the way Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 alter HTML
code before presenting it to the user. For example, a web page header might
contain a directive that an ISO (i.e. platform-independent) character set
be used, with the following command:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html charset=ISO-8859-1"> But after downloading and saving the web page source code with Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, this line looks quite different: <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> |
| Microsoft Access in Office 2003 or even before | Security ? ZERO, Zilch, Zip, Nada... | Even when you compile a MDE file for distribution, the tables can be accessed by just Clicking "F11" on your keyboard, if you thought it was safe, think again ! I don't consider myself to be a genius by any means, but I sure as hell would have locked table access on mde files, du... |
| Microsoft Access in Office 2002 | Compatability Issues designed to make you Upgrade at an additional Cost ! Right-Click the image and select open in a new window to see a larger image |
Even after running this update from Microsoft, it still doesn't work ! and of course it advises that the fix would be for you to fork out some more money and upgrade to Office 2003, what a convenient solution... |
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