“Gates never cared about quality; Gates has had a remarkable stroke of luck in finding the right horse to ride on at the right moment; but his colossus is currently up to its neck in alligators and no one really cares if he survives another week, another month, or another year. There is no way serious corporations can go on using Microsoft products anymore, and there is no way Bill Gates can get himself out of the mess he’s created.
The master of the lock-in, Gates has unwittingly perpetrated the cruellest, most irrevocable lock-in upon himself. His technology is antiquated and unsuitable for net use, and if he tries to unravel one mistake, all the rest will come unraveled along with it.
There is no way to backtrack to a point earlier in time and development where things hadn’t yet begun to go wrong: it’s all wrong, and has been so from the beginning.
There is no way to patch and protect a system for which the very idea of security does not exist. There is no way to layer sounder ideas on top of an intrinsically unsound fundament. There is only folly in trying to build a more stable second storey to a one-storey building which already is crash-prone. There is nothing under the bonnet in any Microsoft technology to build on. It’s all crap. All of it.”
Oh slumbrous ones, awaken.
