Windows Live Spaces to Take on Social Networking Services

IMO, this isn't about Mac vs. Windows; this is about a web service that a small group inside Microsoft is passionately building to serve a customer group that wants to connect online and is not served by the current offerings from MySpace, Facebook, et. al. Check-out http://thespacecraft.spaces.msn.com for more on what's here.

lol.

There's a few dozen in every crowd, isn't there?

WHERE ARE MY FRUITY APPLES BONCH, I ASKED FOR THEM 43 SECONDS AGO. BY THE WAY, THE SILLY MAC FROZE AGAIN, AND IT WONT END THE STUPID CD PLAYER TASK. NO I DONT KNOW WHY, I WAS HAPPILY LISTENING TO SPICEWORLD, AND MY FAVOURITE GINGER SPICE WAS SINGING AWAY WHEN IT JUST FROZE! I AM UTTERLY ANNOYED, THAT WAS MY FAVOURITE CD AND NOW ITS GOING TO TAKE HOURS TO GET IT BACK. I CANT END THE STUPID TASK, I TRY TO FORCE QUIT BUT THE MAC WONT DO IT! EVEN IN WINDOWS YOU CAN END A PROCESS TREE AND RESTART EXPLORER! YOU CANT RESTART THE SILLY BILLY FINDER BONCH. ITS JUST SILLY. SILLY BILLY BONCH THE SILLY BILLY ADVICE TO BUY A SILLY BILLY MAC WAS JUST SILLY.

I do admin that the sarcasm was unnecessary. But I will say that bonch tends to bring out the worst in you.

Now I don't agree that small and mid-size businesses avoid Windows. What are they using then? They certainly aren't using Macs, and they aren't using Linux, either (which of course would be a huge burden to an IT department). They still do use Windows. I don't consider my company a large company, but we do have about 100 employees, and for that type of company, you do need a small IT staff. Only the smallest of companies would need to outsource their IT staff.

Patch Tuesday is not a big problem for me. It is a definable event that can be planned for. With the easy to set up and use WSUS server, I have been able to greatly automate the installation on my network. All software requires updates, and this makes it very easy to fix these. Once again, I can't see the Mac getting huge numbers until they start catering to the business world. How would you deploy patched effectively to a Mac or Linux environment? This is one area that MS shines, since, yeah, MS has a lot of experience :)

And yes, they do need a sustainable infrastructure. That means being able to follow a roadmap and stick to it. Companies of any size do not want to upgrade their desktop OS every year. While Vista has certainly been a long and hard journey to wait for, as a company, I'd rather wait longer for an OS than not. Consider how long it takes some large corporations to update their software. Years sometimes. That is what actually makes a small company more adept at making these changes. I think in many cases the Mac people are forgetting that there is a whole corporate world out there, and their needs are different than a home or small business user.

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"Corporations, you know, the thing that you want to be a part of when you grow up (to make lots of money so you can buy those expensive white boxes without the help of your parents), do not want a piece of software that they get charged for every year because of some incremental improvements. They need a sustatinable infrastructure."

The sarcasm dripping from your voice is unnecessary. As you said, "you don't have to be so arrogant about it."

As for corporations needing a "sustainable infrastructure," I would submit to you that many small- to medium-sized businesses avoid Windows due to the productivity losses from security issues and the need to either hire an IT person or pay through the nose for outside consulting. Larger corporations can hide that cost, which is substantial. Even such a small event as a "critical update" on Patch Tuesday can send some larger companies into a tailspin when they update their "sustainable infrastructure".

You're right about bonch being overzealous, but you need to tone down your rhetoric as well, IMHO.


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