Ted Garrett wrote:
> I don't think you are looking at the true history of what 'windoze people'
> willingly use. Look at "Frontpage Server Extensions", "VBScript", and the
> number of sites on the internet which have '.asp' as their primary
> document type.
>
> Microsoft can spend a few hundred million advertising the 'innovations',
> 'ease of use', and 'stability' of this product, and upper level management
> buys into it after only a couple of months.
They can advertize (and propagandize) as much as they like, but I haven't known
anyone using windows for something more than games, who doesn't complain about
instability.
>
> I recently had an employer ask me (completely seriously) why I didn't
> think that implementing an enterprise-wide database application using
> Microsoft Access was a good idea.
???? Propaganda....
Access for a serious database {\em is} suicide!!!!
> After all, it IS the database engine
> supplied with Microsoft Office, which is the number one application for
> windows.
>
> Windoze people will buy anything microsoft sells them.
Hm, I wouldn't like to think of all these millions of users as "stupid" (OK, it
is stupid to stick with windows for serious work...)
But who knows?
