begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:56:07PM -0600: > On 11/5/06, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >http://www.ie7.com > > I've been using IE7 at work. It really is shoddy. It's frustrating > me because it won't remember my passwords. It randomly blocks popups > on pages I've told it not to, causing the page not to work. > > I've seen companies that put a lot of work into a top quality software > product. I know that it can be done. And yet Microsoft, with their > legions of people and money, just can't figure out how to be one of > those companies. It's kind of amazing.
There's an argument that if they *did* put people and money towards creating top-notch quality software, they'd be violating the interests of their shareholders. Quality software does less and costs more. Programmers making the code better are, in theory, busy not adding features that would help to maintain market share. The market obviously do not *want* quality software, so providing their customers^Wconsumers with something that costs money and isn't desired is taking money from the pockets of the shareholders. Microsoft didn't achieve dominance by writing *GOOD* software. Why should they change now, just to please a few malcontents like you or I? -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
