Ouch! Sun Microsystem's CEO takes a potshot at Microsoft

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From macminute.com:

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealey said Tuesday he believes the computer industry is still in its infancy and that everything in the home or office will eventually be connected to the Internet, according to Reuters. "There is a massive amount of stuff that is not being captured by the Net," McNealey told the crowd at the JavaOne software developer conference. He also took jabs at HP, Compaq, and Dell, saying the three PC makers have ceased innovating, as well as saying that Microsoft's .NET initiative will fail against Java. "You know that first hit of heroin is free," McNealey said in regards to Microsoft and .NET. Meanwhile, Apple has published a number of photos from the JavaOne conference, and encourages developers to download the new Java tools.


Hahahaha, I love that quote. "You know that first hit of heroin is free." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That just encapsulates all of my sentiments towards Microsoft and .NET. Go Scott McNealey! Woohoo!
 
Hehe... Scot McNealy is a little like Steve Balmer but without the MASSIVE SOCIAL/DISFUNCTION problems... very devoted, not afraid to drop some really biting criticism, and damned amusing.

Then again... Steve Balmer is funny for a different reason.

Errr... at the end of this I find myself wondering if I'm thinking of the right person... then not caring... anyways... yeah... Microsoft spaz... really amusing in interviews about the antitrust suit. Eventually they realized 'hey... this guy is a frickin' psycho... he's a liability... quiet him down already'.

To summarize... Scott McNealy- funny. Steve Balmer also funny... but sad at the same time, but still very funny.

man it's late.
 
I dont know why everyone gets excited about people taking pot shots at M$, when all is said and done M$ will win, they have too much ambition and MONEY to lose.

In the end whether anyone likes it or not Java will never amount to anything near what .NET will, that is just a fact. I like Java alot, but having recently been using .NET, M$ gives it away to all the CS students at my UNI :D i must say i like that too.

In the end what the Beast of Redmond wants it gets, sure M$ has produced some sloppy code before but it eventually gets it right i.e IE6 is wicked as is VS.NET as is Windows XP Prof. All three are amazing pieces of kit, its just a pity we had to have IE 4 and Win98 on the way :D
 
FrgMstr,

I can understand your puzzlement as a user of Microsoft products. You use them and you don't see a problem with it. The problem is for people who wish to use alternatives to Microsoft products. The Web (designed on a system that would later become Mac OS X) was envisioned as a cross-platform solution for sharing information. Microsoft would rather it be a Windows only solution. I don't know that much about .NET, but I do remember Visual J++. That wonderful Microsoft Java development environment that produced apps that would only run on Windows (which was completely counter to the idea behind Java which was for a cross platform development/runtime environment). Microsoft learned a long time ago that competition is expensive, so shutting out competing products not only made them appear to be the only solution (at least as far as a majority of the public is concerned), it also meant that they didn't require as much for R&D (taking other people's ideas is easier when no one else has heard of them).

Consider Microsoft's security problems, in an environment of competition such problems would either kill such a product or force it's producer to correct the errors leading to the problem. In the case of Windows, Microsoft has done next to nothing on their end because of their monopoly and so many people spent tons of money for solutions which should never have been needed in the first place. Most of the features active on new PCs or new installations of Windows are never used by the vast majority of consumers, and are the cause of over 95% of the security problems. If features were installed by consumers only after they needed them, then many of the security holes would not exist. VB Scripting is not used by over 99% of the people who own PCs, yet Microsoft made it active by default on all installations for Windows... and when you take into account that the people who would use it would have been the ones that would have had no problem installing it on their own systems, that makes the default activation look even more questionable.

How about Internet Explorer for another example. When Microsoft made it part of the OS, it was still one of the buggiest browser in use. What benefit did consumers get from linking one of the most crash prone application of an already crash prone class of applications (browsers in general) with an operating system that was not completely stable to begin with? They, of course, had nothing to worry about because they already had a monopoly by that point with Windows. It was the browser market that was their target then.

Everyone (here in a forum for a Microsoft alternative) gets excited about people taking pot shots at Microsoft because they have seen Microsoft work to get rid of other alternatives in the past and they know theirs could be the next one targeted.

I think a better question is why you would be surprise by people's reactions. You are not new to this forum and none of the things I noted would be new to you.
 
Scott McNealy has been making fun of Microsoft for a long time. Every time he makes a keynote speech he really rips them apart. Its very funny sometimes, but I can imagine that if you were on the other end of it he would appear like a really a-hole.

Actually why did I say that, he's making fun of MS he has the right to be an a** :D
 
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