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Well… I have heard more than many times (pardon my grammar) that the worst Software are Microsoft products. I have met a lot of open source enthusiasts (you can spot them easily – they will be wearing a tee-shirt with a penguin in the back) with intelligent remarks such as IBM has open-sourced its computers. They neither know exactly the economics of open source nor the difference between open source and open systems. But they have been very successful in propagating that Microsoft is the worst software to work with.

Result? Most of them don’t find any alternatives but still stick with Microsoft but keep complaining that Windows is designed solely for the purpose of hanging. Sometimes you can’t control yourself when they complain Windows after accidentally switching off the power button. What would you do when someone complains Microsoft for UPS problem or DVD drive getting struck? Most of them are not that naïve but they do complain Microsoft for some third party software hanging. Well… There was a time when Microsoft was debugging even third party software to avoid these complaints but now they don’t have the band-width or a marketing reason to do so.

What am I driving here? Open source could seem more reliable due to variety of reasons but all I am saying is Microsoft, recruiting the top talent in the world, is not aiming at providing the worst software. May be, the parameters you use in judging Microsoft are not the parameters Microsoft is trying to satisfy. Remember … Microsoft is not developing products for programmers but it develops for common men. Now judge Microsoft with such parameters like user friendliness, marketing etc … You will understand what they are trying to achieve …

Having said that … Microsoft does have some handicaps and is really a bad guy in some situations, which I will write about on some other day… Till then … Hail Microsoft …