Dear Microsoft: Enough with the Silverlight
Submitted by mark on Tue, 2008-01-15 21:52.
Dear Microsoft:
I am a systems engineer and I support just about every product you make. I manage hundreds of systems.
Recently, in an effort to monopolize on your cutomer base's frequent need to use your (horribly designed and slow) website, every new visit to just about any page of yours has prompted me to install Silverlight.
This is highly annoying.
Adding insult to injury, you decided to make it a whizz-bang nifty looking graphic instead of the standard ActiveX install. For us that remotely manage banks of remote servers daily, this means watching the slow graphic slowly crawl down the screen until its motion stops. This normally brings my customers' uplink to a crawl and I have to wait for it to completely load (which is probably 45 seconds but feels like an ETERNITY) before I get to click on the "Fuck Off" "No, Thanks" button.
Stop it. Take it off. Users don't want this, admins don't want this. None of us are interested in it at all. We understand your need to innovate and desire to shoehorn yourself into your competitors' territory through unfair practices, but we're jaded enough. We all hate your products enough already. It's bad enough supporting your products. Sure, your horrible software wins me a lot of business, which I thank you for. This pain, it's personal.
It's incredibly, for lack of a better word, lame.
The IT community also noticed how much slower your site runs since its cutover Server 2008. We have taken note of this. Please, don't do to us with Server 2008 what you did to us with Vista.
I hate you.
Sincerely,
Mark
Get a clue
Anyone ever go to a site when you didn't have the flash plugin? Same shit. It's just a new technology... Get over it. If you don't want things to change then go work for the government and get out of IT.
Since when does Microsoft
Since when does Microsoft thoroughly test software *before* release - let alone test for USABILITY, LONGEVITY, OR RELIABILITY - big words for Micro$oft managers.
>And why are your users
>And why are your users surfing Microsoft.com? Weird.
Trying to work out how to get MS Software to work properly I'd imagine
> If you hate the product why aren't you running Linux servers?
Because admins don't generally call the purchasing shots!
Microsoft is failing
Silverlight, yet another DOA product from Microsoft - a slowly but surely dying company. Look at their recent major product history: MS Flash (Silverlight) - FAIL, Vista - FAIL, Office '07 - FAIL, IE7 - FAIL.
It's not the MS of the nineties, all the smart people have left and they can't even steal ideas properly anymore. They'll end up like IBM, a huge boring company that still rakes in money, but has an ever weakening influence.
Some smart people are still
Some smart people are still there. Unfortunately, there is no more real innovation from MS. Most of their recent accomplishments are a response to a market threat.
Microsoft has no real Antivirus suite. There's Defender, which they acquired from GIANT. Microsoft acquired Sybari for another AV project. Microsoft's answer to the virtuialization market sector is Hypervisor, which I can't wait to play with, but it's again another attempt to get in on the success of real innovative companies. I do anticipate its arrival however because of the licensing model and interopability with current Windows management suites.
Will Windows 7 be any good? Will it borrow much of its improvements from its more innovative competitors? We know what the answer to that is.
Well put!
I haven't dared click on the install Sliverlight button yet, but thanks for the warning! I feel your M$ support pain and agree wholeheartedly!
For the others who don't understand, you've obviously not dealt with M$'s server products as an administrator!
If only the beancounters would let us run it all on Linux....
Really...
... and here I thought competition was good for a market?
And why are your users surfing Microsoft.com? Weird.
And if you had a clue you'd see that you could push out the Silverlight package to your users in about the same amount of time it took you to write this post.
http://blog.nixc.co.uk/2007/09/deploy-silverlight-10-for-enterprise.html
BTW, I'm sure you love when your users are continually prompted to install/upgrade JVM, Flash, Acrobat, Firefox, QuickTime, RealPlayer, etc...
Those don't count 'cuase MS didn't make 'em I guess.
Wonder why the world hates their IT staff?
The article has nothing to
The article has nothing to do with the difficulty of installing silverlight but more with the fact that Microsoft is pushing it in your face until you install it. BTW, as far as I know most of the other software you mention have an opt out option (I don't know about real tho since I havent used that piece of crap for ages)
he has like every screw lose
he has like every screw lose posible
If you hate the product why
If you hate the product why aren't you running Linux servers?
I do
I have several linux lab servers, and this website is run by 2 linux servers.
I'm not alone ?
Ever been in a movie where everyone else is laughing their ass off, and you are wondering why you don't get it ?
I thought that was me in the "Silverlight, now Showing" premier.
Pass around the Vaseline everyone, I'm sure it will be a few more years until Ubuntu is stable enough to scare them back to reality or simply replace enough of the mainstream desktop.
I actually disagree
While I think it is indeed terrible that they may be enforcing the use of silverlight on their homepage, which I think is just as bad as those times (you may recall because it's rare these days) when you had to wait a minute to click "No" to Java because someone decided an applet of a clock was absolutely necessary for their worthless page, I don't think silverlight is a bad thing.
For one, it seems it will be a way for mac users to use DRM'd windows media, i.e., we can finally use Netflix Watch Now. I await that day anxiously.
Childish much?
Childish much?
"I support just about every
"I support just about every product you make. "
"We all hate your products enough already. "
hrmm.
Very close to home
I can relate.
Excelent. Vista ftb (for the
Excelent. Vista ftb (for the burn).
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