Microsoft's Cult

Someone lamented the lack of a cult for Microsoft. Of how Linux, Macintosh have their own fanatic fanbase, but not Microsoft. And how even Microsoft employees themselves display a profound lack of enthusiasm for supporting Microsoft against the onslaught of crazy alternative fans.

I suppose he's a fanboy himself. And i suppose i am sort of one as well. Not that I have a choice. Not that I'm complaining either.

You see, nothing else except Windows has the ability to run almost ALL of the commercial big-hit games out there in the market. That's an instant thumbs up for me, and pretty much a lot of people out there.

Secondly, Windows is VERY popular. Sure, no crazy fans. You keep hearing dissent. But .... aren't like most people using Windows? School computers use Windows. Government institutions mostly use Windows. We all have used Windows some point in our lives. Practically everything to do with computers in this world is attached to Microsoft and Windows in some way. Macintosh support is like an additional bonus. So a lot of people in the world are actually Microsoft fans. We're just not enthused about it that's all.

Thirdly, we're not enthused about Microsoft because ... Microsoft is dominant. It doesn't really need us to commit to its cause fervently. It's just always been there, forever and ever. It's like your mobile phone or your shoes. We just buy them and use them. We surely don't go around encouraging the use of other phones and shoes (well phones, actually some do) =0. Windows technology, most of the time, just works perfectly fine for the average user. There is no incentive to switch.

Fourthly, most people CAN'T afford to switch. Compatibility issues. If you switch, you're locking yourself out to the plethora of resources. You're minimising the chances of your work/document working on other computers. If you're a developer, you don't have much time or the effort to produce binaries for more than one OS. So to maximise audience you would choose Microsoft. And Microsoft's new technologies, especially heavily hyped ones like .NET have an especially strong backing. You can be sure that the technology will stay around.

Actually, I take that back. Some of Microsoft's technology COULD fail. It's possible and it's happened before to one of Microsoft's Operating System called Bob. Lolz, what a funny name.



And SilverLight, Microsoft's new technology to compete with Flash and Java. It MIGHT not succeed. C++/C# programming ain't exactly the best way to do animation/menu bars/movie clips. Flash was BUILT for that kinda stuff. It could beat Java.

So yep, it's useless talking abt a Microsoft Cult. There already is one. A silent one that permeates every level of society.

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