Posted by MicrosoftCustomer on May 22, 2007, at 14:19:31
In reply to Re: I use Microsoft. What's so funny? » MicrosoftCustomer, posted by NikkiT2 on May 22, 2007, at 13:18:30
> The fact is, anyone who runs a server and wants it secure ~doesn't~ run microsoft. I didn't see his answer meaning home users.
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> And thats what I took him to mean.
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> NikkiMicrosoft has a major share of the server market, which would indicate that claims asserting "nobody" uses Microsoft or that "anyone who runs a server and wants it secure ~doesn't~ run microsoft" uses another brand are consistent with available facts.
I wonder what is less "civil" in Mr. Hsiung's mind:
* to call into question the existence, intelligence and credibility of millions of Microsoft product users, or
* to assert asserting that such customers are in fact human, rational, intelligent and in control of their choices to select a particularly reputable product whose users' intelligence is routinely called into question by a vocal minority of users of other brands.The answer, read literally, questions the reputability of anyone who uses Microsoft, including home users and business users. I don't *feel* put down when someone insults my careful product selection -- instead I *know* that statements which question the credibility of others whose credibility is well established tend to rhetorically demean the credibility of those others. It doesn't matter how I feel about it. What matters is reality, which in this case is a matter of taking at face value statements that attempt to diminish the credibility of others.
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