The “Escaping From Windows” rationale behind this series needs even less explaining than the other parts. Although we once owed Microsoft a great debt of gratitude for helping to consolidate the computing community so that we could all talk to each other, as opposed to the anarchy that existed in the early PC era, we have already overpaid that debt. Since that day long ago when they won the marketplace, Microsoft has not done much for anybody but Microsoft, especially in recent years.
The Windows code base has gotten bigger, older and slower over the years, and is just being patched instead of being replaced. The Microsoft marketing strategy relies almost purely on spin and brute force. Every Microsoft announcement regarding Open Source is patently less true than the last. Windows is now mainly legacy which needs badly to be replaced. MS Marketing also legacy, but it is the legacy of the Robber Barons of the 19th century. One could go on, but I'm sure that you get the idea. I want to be forever done with Gates, Ballmer, and company.To put it as plainly as I can, I have no desire to do business with Microsoft any more. Their newest operating system is a bad joke, their applications are little better, and their level of candor has sunk beneath that of any company I know of. In my personal opinion, they are no longer worthy of my vote, so I have voted with my checkbook, which is the best way I know how to vote on commercial matters, and I have gone elsewhere, forever.
Tomorrow: Where I'm going and why.
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