On 12/4/05, John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tell that to a web designer. IE6 is buggy, insecure by design, and at > least five years out of date; it also spits in the face of W3C.
Yeah, that's one program. A program that MS had all but abandoned like 5 years ago. Other stuff MS has done works just fine. Bill Gates' megalomania has retarded the entire industry by at least ten > years. Windows' easy-to-use interface, Office's powerful business apps, and other advancements brought to you by the Evil Empire *CREATED* the industry. There was a time when Windows wasn't the monopoly, when MS Office didn't command the huge marketshare it does today, and when IE meant "for example". But because of Microsoft doing something right - giving people what they want, a simple-to-use interface, powerful business applications, and games to boot - there is a computer in almost every home in America and Europe. Now, are you going to tell me that Apple did that? Or Linux? Or Unix? Or Acorn? Or maybe it was IBM, right? Because everyone uses OS/2 Warp 2006, right? No, I'm sorry, it wasn't any of those companies, groups, or projects. It was Bill Gates' megalomania and the multibillion dollar evil corporation based on that megalomania that brought personal computing to the masses. Now, today, 10 years after Windows 95, they have indeed dropped the ball. MSO is huge and expensive. IE is flawed and practically forgotten about and abandoned,until some upstart Firefox got people thinking about browsers again. I don't have a lot of complaints about Windows, although Mac OS X is better. The point is, you can complain about Microsoft, they are not perfect - they do not have perfect software, nor perfect ethics. But let's please be far about this. The computer industry as we know it today would never have existed without Microsoft. Maybe their time has come and gone. Maybe their ride is over, or soon about to be. That's fine. But Windows got the world from the mainframe to the laptop, from the BBS to the Internet and Web 2.0. They shouldn't be denied that. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
