RolStoppable said:
Who, when in doubt, tends to favor Sony. Hence why it's easy to mistake you for a Sony fan. |
True, but I got my reasons.
MS ripped me off one time too many. Sony ripped me off only once, a cheap SATA DVD writer that was crap compared to my previous ATA one, always by Sony, and now I got a Samsung one. I used to hate Sony Trinitron monitors and TVs, but then, nobody ever forced me to buy them, while OTOH, I had to buy bad Windows versions twice because they were those available at the moment that supported all my HW and SW, old and new. I had to buy that crappy Works because it was the cheapest way to be eligible to buy a cheaper version of Word (but as soon as WordPerfect offered me more for less, I gave up and WP Suite 8 was my first and last closed source office suite, and I spent less than what I should have paid for Word). I risked my personal data the only time in my life I caught a worm because MS programmed old versions of IE to memorize sensible data in the file "index.dat" even if the user set it to never do it (luckily WinME was so crappy that it crashed as soon as Bugbear infected it). Since then I used IE only to access Windows Update and a pair of online antivirus that once supported only it, and not even Jesus coming back on Earth to recommend it could persuade me to use it for anything else. Add all the efforts MS makes to tie people to its proprietary world where you are given some gadgets for free but you must pay everything essential, and all the filthy stuff it did to destroy competitors and the result is that I can't support it. Obviously neither Sony is a saint and it was good that it was soundly bashed, to tone down its arrrogance, but it's a good thing too that Sony is a competitor big enough to not being easily crushed by MS. About Ninty, I just preferred Mario of the origins, I didn't like the Gameboy, I'm not anymore a platform fan, i prefer sim racers to arcade ones, I don't like region codes and I like to mock Ninty and its fans just a little bit (but it started mostly because some of them feel exaggeratedly depressed whenever Ninty doesn't overkill competition, not to mention some malstromites), but I consider them quite OK overall.
Anyway, to sum it up, I don't trust MS. I don'trust its competitors, either, but MS is the one I trust the least.
