I'm not anti-MS. My problem with them is that thier marketing group seems
to drive the release schedules instead of releasing when the software is
done.
MS had some excellent products in thier past. MS DOS 5.0 still personally
rates as the best non-Unix OS I have used. Also, the early Mac versions of
MS Excel and Word were far superior to anything else available on either a
PC or a Mac at that time.
But now thier innovations seem to come out messed up and the marketing
machine responds "It's a feature, not a bug." When Win 2K was still in
beta, I got that exact response from an MS employee with an MCSE during a
failed test install.
It turns out he worked for the marketing department. I did get a straight
story from a technical guy who was with him.
I'll shut up for now. I'm hungry.
Russel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:07 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Microsoft - Why is everyone so hate hate?
>
>
> if we all liked MS that much we would be using ASP... *cough*
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:18 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Microsoft - Why is everyone so hate hate?
>
>
> (deep breath)
>
> Why is everyone do agro agro about Microsoft? What do the majority of you
> guys use?! I would assume Windows. MS do what they need to do to survive
> in still a very competitive market. Anyone can make software with correct
> knowledge and tools - its not as if they are countries using
> their power to
> corrupt other nations is it? <cough cough> ring a bell?
>
> Jeez, look at Apple - they release an already 2 years late OS which you
> would have to re-purchase all your software for anyway?! erm and
> thats not
> underhand? Apple are in teh position they are in for one reason,
> they didn't
> license the OS rights - nail in the coffin right there. Oh and it doesn't
> work well - something Windows does, despire the hear 'say -
> Windows 95/98 I
> will give you, they were pants, but NT, 2K are pretty stable - I
> have never
> had to reboot a server in anger.
>
> I suggest you guys take the time out to realise just how much work was put
> into making the MS business and maybe take some time out from your bitchin
> to read Randell E. Stross's book - The Microsoft Way; it is a
> fair expose of
> the man and the company - I think it will open a lot of eyes.
>
> Maybe the QT thing was deliberate, maybe it wasn't - but there will be a
> resolution.
>
> "Open Your minds, be formless."
>
> Neil
>
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