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Microsoft makes 3rd rate products. They should partner up w/ Apple to make things original. Microsoft is like a giant copy machine. When a great idea comes from a company, Microsoft loves to copy it.
I was going to give it one star, but if it wasn't for their buggy and poor software, i wouldn't have an IT job.
This big company is hard to understand.
Most people are unsatisfied because the products don't do exactly what they expect. It's really hard to satisfy millions of people.
It's hard to talk to Microsoft people but if you have the right resources, it's actually easy.
This review is strictly for their second home video game console, the Xbox 360. It tops my list as the best home console ever released. EVAR! I tell you!
From it's online gameplay to it's ability to stream Netflix movies to my big screen TV so I don't have to watch the "Watch It Now" movies on my tiny computer monitor, this system just about does it all. And I have a crapton of over 80 games for it so there's never a dull moment.
Hahahaha, my friend will send me a text message asking me to come out for some beers. No, thanks. I think I'll stay home and play Call of Duty 4. Yes, it's that good. I have no life.
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Thank you for making your products buggy and hard to configure, I will forever have work in the IT industry.
p.s. I'm actually digging Vista ultimate 64 bit with media center...
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You sold me an Xbox that broke 3 times. You have had it in your repair shop almost as long as I have had it at home. Now you tell me it is out of warranty so you will no longer fix your defective piece of crap. Pretty shabby.
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I don't really see how Microsoft employees can have any sense of self-worth at the end of every single work day.
The biggest mistake I've ever made in my entire life was upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007.
Outlook redefines what slow means, and Excel doesn't even sort correctly in my Pivot Tables.
Can I file a lawsuit against them for wasting so much of my time?
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Oh boo, all you haters.
Hip Hip Hooray for capitalism!
Thanx for keeping our local economy strong. Everyone in the Puget sound enjoys a higher standard of living because of companies like Microsoft and Boeing.
Find me a bigger philanthropist than Bill Gates.
That's what I thought, you can't.
Half the reason why we get to geek out on Yelp is BECAUSE of Microsoft.
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So I have a Mac laptop, but at work I am forced to use a Windows computer. ALl I know is that every couple of months, I get a message upon startup that the "encryption codes" need to be updated, and I am supposed to "generate random data" by moving my mouse all over for a minute. As you do that, you watch a bar fill from 0% to 100% slowly. WTF is this? Seriously.
Also, the way Microsoft interupts to remind you of updates is fucking irritating. If you overlook the message, the compute automatically restarts. I hate it so much.
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Can I take a different approach here? I appreciate Microsoft on behalf of Seattle, the direct beneficiary of its success. The shear number of jobs created, the increase in the average education, the wealth generated and spent supporting great local restaurants to Yelp about, and the periphery industries that have subsequently been set up have transformed our sleepy blue collar Boeing town into a high flying tech mecca.
If the world wants to vote with their wallets, and in doing so send their money our way, I don't have a problem with that. Especially when the founder goes on to become the greatest philanthropist the world has ever seen (hey, he could be a jerk and give all his money to his kids).
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I'm giving Microsoft 1 star for their unnatural monopoly, poor business practices, lax ethics, their notoriously unstable and vulnerable software and pure smugness.
Props to Gates for his great philanthropic contributions around the world - it almost makes up for the countless hours humanity will spend restarting their crashed Windows operating systems.
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All I have to say is, "Microsoft, WTF is up with Vista?!"
I bought a brand new computer and had no choice but to get it with Vista. The computer works fine except for Vista. Apparently nothing else, including the antivirus they installed on the machine along with Vista, really works well with Vista. Yes it's pretty to look at, but I need a computer that actually works--it isn't a piece of art. I have reformatted it five times already. Sigh.
I only gave them an extra star because I still like using Microsoft Office.
p.s. No, I don't work for Microsoft (and it isn't because I couldn't get hired either--they offered me the opportunity once). It might be a nice place to work, and it's cool that the people who work there believe in it, and give it five stars. It's good that they help the WA economy and all, but I am not reviewing them as an employer. I am also not reviewing Bill Gates, or Bill as philanthropist (he should be with all that cash). Back in the day, I would have given them lots more stars for their products. I didn't give them five stars because lately their product sucks. Sorry, but it's the truth.
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I base this rating not on the amount of money made, the inevitable decline of empire (give my best to Wang), or whatever my own personal choices in technology may be.
This one star is for pure chutzpah. Never have I encountered such a corporate culture that inspires and cultivates such an amazing amount of corporate douchbaggery. It is a monolithic achievement for the ages.
Any organization that can employ people who honestly seem to really believe what they are saying when they are belching out prepared counterpoints developed in misinformation skunkworks should have transfered into politics or begun buying small countries some time ago and have started a tide of kool-aid powered conquest the greatness of which the world has never seen.
Wait. Maybe I should give them a five.
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Call me a Fanboy or a sell out.
With the exception of Firefox, you gotta give it up for Office 2007, Windows, Sql Server, and .Net. IE is still a steaming pile.
And I used to be a Java dev... where has my hatred gone?
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The funniest thing about Internet Explorer crashing is the little window that pops up which reads:
"Report this problem to Microsoft"
For what?! They're not going to fix it anyway! If they can't get a operating system right, I doubt IE crashing is anywhere near the top of their list of issues to look into.
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I hate you Vista.
Yes, I am sure.
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There's pretty much no other company that I hate as much as Microsoft. I have almost a religious aversion to them and I always say I'd be a bum in the street before working for them.
I'm not sure why exactly I hate them so much but I think it's mostly to do with the fact that their whole business philosophy is based on ripping off other people's ideas and making crappy knock-off versions of them. If there weren't companies like Apple out there for Microsoft to steal from, they'd quickly go out of business.
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Been There and Done that.
The best thing about this campus is the field in the middle and the many basketball courts. They also have big parties in the summer which you can crash pretty easily if you look geeky enough :)
The flexible hours and free drinks are big pluses. Another plus is getting your own office where you can surfe the web or work hard as the mood strikes you. Independence and freedom is what America is all about.
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Simply based on what this company has done for cleaning up the region and its real estate, I give them a giant thumbs up.
In the mid '90s this town needed a paint job, badly. Most everything looked dingy, old but not in a classic or timeless sense. Old as in ...dirty.
How you like us now!?
The O.G.'s will cry about the past; how it's not like it used to be. Well, it never is. I would rather see the reformation of vibrant neighborhoods than the blight we had in '94.
Microsoft is solely responsible for everything from the restoration of Paramount Theatre, Cinerama, the Central District, and much, much, much more.
I hear they do software too!
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They knowingly released a flawed system in the 360. I've had a total of 6 consoles that have all broken down. I take care of the things that I buy; my NES still works and is in perfect condition after all these years. I bought one xbox 360 at launch, and ever since I have had to send it in for a total of 5 times!
Do not trust your money with this shady company.
Anyone who knows me will understand this rating all too well.
My latest experience with bad MSFT software came when we had to update our computers for the new "day light savings scheme". I have two work computers (one Linux and one Windows) and a Mac at home. OS X and Linux just needed a one button click to install the patch; windows required four restarts and it still didn't work.
"Once you go Mac you'll never go back" :)
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I'm with you Brenna.
Personally, http://www.debian.org/ gets 5 stars.
Too bad my picture is gone, but Microsoft, you were my bitch for a day.
http://www.webpronews....
http://news.stepforth....
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*ugh*
Please use _some_ of that money to innovate. Please, just buy some fresh ideas instead of stealing one that are several years old.
No, I get that Microsoft has done a lot for the Greater Seattle area and that it might be a great place to work, for some. However, you can say the same thing about any large corporation.
I'm talking strictly about their products.
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I can't really hate on Microsoft they make great products...most of the time. When I interviewed at Microsoft I was treated very well, and they had some great benefits...I was just offered better benefits and salary at my current job. But if that were not the case, I'd definitely be a cubicle monkey for Microsoft. Anyway Yay for keeping Seattle on the map.
~G
Oh the conspiracy.... I have a serious love/hate relationship with Microsoft...more bordering on hate as they continue to issue crap OSs. You had a firm grip with Windows 2000! It actually worked! Windows ME was the greatest debacle ever and Microsoft should be taken to the stocks and whipped with iron pillars and stoned for it.
Then Windows XP (extra-pathetic) and home edition in particular came out to be cute and please the masses...which automatically meant crap architecture and more hung apps than I can shake a stick at. I have fewer complaints about XP Pro but it's still a crap-ass OS, with all your wimpy service packs!
I will have to say that Microsoft has increased my productivity somewhat with the issuance of Office, although Access and I fight regularly. I give you 2 stars because my life wouldn't be what it is without the necessary evil of Microsoft (I'd really prefer 2.5 stars), but you still piss me off on a daily basis.
Don't worry, Apple didn't fare much better.
Sooooo....what flavour do you like your Linux? Red Hat, Debian or SuSe?
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Another vote for Brenna.
My Linux flavor is Fedora, though I like SuSE, too.
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The Evil Empire - where should I start? I'll add more day by day - tonight at break time - history lesson 1 on M$. I start with 1 star cause I can't give 0 or minus stars for the company whose only innovation has been plagiarizing everyone else's ideas - it would only be stealing if they made it at least as good as the original.
My children, in the early days in 1975 there was a company who produced one of the first microcomputers for commercial (actually more for hobbyist) use. It was a company named Altair and it was programmed by using 8080 processor op codes - a tedious task at best. Late in 1975, they were contacted by a pair of shady characters showed up on the scene who claimed to have a BASIC programming language. They got a version working on one of the mini computers of the day and sold it to Altair - and their company name Micro-Soft.
Later in 1975, another company who couldn't get the amount of Altair computers they wanted to order started producing their own - the IMSAI 8080. It actually had a Real operating system - from CP/M.
Tomorrow night - maybe I'll add some about TandySoft BASIC and AppleSoft BASIC - guess who developed those too? The same Micro-Soft.
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I'm also with you Brenna
My choice http://www.gentoo.org/ gets my vote of 5 stars
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After all, where would we all be today without them ?
Don't they have pretty much full control on most stuff ?
I must say I sure do like their landscape at the
Corporate Headquarters in Washington.
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I'd give zero stars, were that an option. If they would reimburse for ALL the time they have caused to be wasted all over the world, they'd have been bankrupted ages ago. But due to appropriate dollops of their ill-gotten gains, they get a free pass through the Antitrust legislation, and everybody gets inferior goo on their machines.
Mediocrity would be a plus, Their stuff is pure sh*t, forcefed by curare-tipped marketing and spin-control/FUD that Joe Goebbels would have envied.
Go Slackware, or go Mac, and don't look back!
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Ok, so what have I bought? I think I own the license to the OS on my laptop. They haven't done me any wrong over the years. Everyone else just wants the product to breakdown, but what's the use?
They provide a pretty good OS and there are alternatives. Don't lose the faith. And Gates ran things pretty well. I'd like to meet him, but I don't know what I would say to him. Nice charity?
Yeah. Go PC!
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Thumbs up for DOS.
Thumbs down for Windows. The damn registry can kiss my ass.
GO UBUNTU!!!!!
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I used to love you. I always bought OS/updates, always gave in to your powers. Alas, my Xbox 360 or Crapbox has the infamous "red light" syndrome and it will take you 3-4 weeks to repair. Considering the console is only 10 months old, W-the-double-f00k?! My PS2 and Gamecube which are much, much older are still running fine, but your Crapbox 360 next generation console has already crapped out. When I get this back, I'll sell it and gladly buy myself a PS3. Ugh.
Oh, your Customer Service automated system SUCKS donkey balls. We have to talk to some computer generated "cool guy" just to get to a real person. You MS, have lost my business and everyone else's that I know and will know. Goodbye.
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Upgraded to Vista.
I know I am late and I am so thankful to MS that they didn't make the following a default "feature".......
))) I am leaving http://msn.com and trying to get to http://yelp.com
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I can see what they're going for, but they just don't quite get there. If they just took that extra step, their products could be truly useful and help productivity. Unfortunately, the time you save with the features that are good is canceled out by the time you spend fighting with the tool itself.
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What?! How can you hate Microsoft? I'm sitting here right now, it's great. The ambiance is subtle, yet sophisticated. The coffee is great and the drinks are bottomless.
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I was going to give Microsoft 5 stars - but my Windows computer kept crashing. I'd like to expl
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For all the people that posted 5 Stars, its obvious you work at microsoft. My problem isn't with the software. It's hard to get billions of lines of code to work together. My problem is with their economic policies.
"The whole idea of the H1B visa thing is, don't let too many smart people come into the country. The thing basically doesn't make sense." - Gates, circa 2005
There is currently a 115,000 H1B limit for fiscal year 2008. Not all for microsoft mind you but for all companies in America (a lot go to Microsoft). The limit of 65,000 H1B petitions was reached for fiscal year 2007 four months before the start of the fiscal year. This is the same visa class H. Clinton is trying to increase. Whaaa?!
The visa program is about letting skilled workers come work for US companies that are having a hard time finding workers for their specific jobs (for the amount of pay and/or experience requirements) on a temporary basis for no longer then six years.
(Now when I say skilled workers it usually mean someone that knows how to program code. The ditch diggers of the programming world. Because face it, who wants to write code all bloody day? I heard a microsoft exec refer to the program as a velvet sweatshop. How true.)
This sounds all fine and dandy because that's what the IT companies are telling the press and its true.
What they did not include in their statement is the fact that those H1B workers, after three years are allowed to apply for a Permanent Residence (Green Card) and live in the United States indefinitely. There are two obvious problems with this.
It 1) eliminates their 6 year limit. 2) 1 US job is now permanently lost to a foreign worker at lower pay and experience.
So yes, Microsoft did pick up the Seattle area in the '90s as stated. It built one city, Seattle. But in doing so eroded all of America. Their business plan is not the same as it was a decade ago. Real estate prices are outrageous. Only the elite six-figure income H1Bs can afford homes in the city. Yes there are bottomless drinks for free, super...
Now I'm not against fair foreign trade but that's not what this is about. What happened to educating our population so they CAN do this kind of work? This is about how many dollars you can save. That's the bottom line.
I'm not in the IT field incase you're wondering.
(- 1 star for every job lost)
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I love MS and love working for MS. The only people I can see not giving MS 5 stars are the people who cant get hired. ;-p
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Thought I'd help out... ;)
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I could explain my rating, but I won't. :)
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