>It does not apply to a sheep that goes with the rest of the herd and thoughtelessly does absolutely
everything that it is told to do by a shepherd
Well, let’s talk on shepherds and slaves 
My very strong belief is that “rage against the machine” for the sake of rage itself, as also Ego boosting by such rage (which most anti-establishment people do, in Linux fandom/Slashdot community also) - it just plain a moronity.
Sometimes the “shepherd” just knows the way which works (not perfect, but still works). Sometimes it does not demand anything sufficient from you.
Also note the 2 points:
- a Jew in 1930ies Germany, lying (with forged documents provision) about himself being an Aryan to the Reichs-official - is GOOD. Such a thing is by no mean morally evil, it only deserves respect. And, I personally extend this notion to rather many bureaucratic regulations of the current governments, even if though they are not Nazis. You can consider me as “anti-establishment” (though I’m not such)
- “a tame calf sucks from 2 mothers” - the Russian proverb.
something that you have mentioned above is just plainly stupid This is why you will find PLENTY of >XP, W2K (and probably even NT4) installations in corporate environments
Currently? in 2015?
100% false on NT4, which hardly ever survived even in embedded stuff like kiosk boxes (NT4-based boxes just did not survive physically/mechanically/electrically, being very old).
100% false on w2k too. In around 2010, it was not so false on w2k, but in non-Western countries (Spanish-speaking America and Brazil, according to my information). But in 2015 - w2k is gone.
Also note that, even though many companies will not upgrade the OS on their desktops just for the sake of upgrade, no one in serious world will deliberately install obsolete OS to the newly purchased PC.
So, the lifetime of obsolete Windows versions is limited by the physical/mechanical/electrical (and moral, even though Moore’s law does not work anymore and 2008-era desktop is not this abysmal in 2015) lifetime of the PCs themselves.
“Monkey Boy” must be getting pretty nervous - MSFT’s new manangement is about to do something
he could not imagine even in his wildest dream. His best “achievement” was reducing MSFT market
share in the world of mobile systems to laughable 3% out of thin air.
This is absolutely a true, and I think this person will contribute - together with that lady who was the CEO of the company making Barbie dolls - to the list of “great managers who finally ruined their businesses”.
Given the fact that WinPhone is so much technically superior to Android - this is even more laughable.
One of the major contributions to this moronity was, obviously, bad business-wise attitude to hardware makers. Google suggested them with better business/legal conditions, so they went with inferior Google’s OS.
Timeline is also important. Android is 3 years older.
Indeed, they seem to be introducing features of Windows Phone (i.e the system that failed
miserably, effectively losing the market almost completely)
It failed not due to technical reasons, but due to business reasons (MSFT’s style of making relations with hardware vendors, for instance).
Surface - as a single product - is not a failure at all. So are Nokias, especially given their cheap price (Apple do not make devices this cheap, and any Android phone for the same money will be a slow-performance disaster).
But… other HW vendors, one by one, turned their heads away from WinRT/WinPhone.
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