http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/what-microsoft-could-learn-from-apple.ars
"Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of itthat's the argument. The truth is that Windows is hampered by 25-year old design decisions. These decisions mean that it's clunky to use and absolutely horrible to write applications for. The applications that people do write are almost universally terrible. They're ugly, they're inconsistent, they're disorganized; there's no finesse, no care lavished on them. Microsoftsurely the company with the greatest interest in making Windows and Windows applications exude qualityis, in fact, one of the worst perpetrators." QUESTION: Why is the press picking so on MS? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
