Paul G. Allen wrote:
Most Windoze admins ... won't touch
Vista at all even with someone else's ten-foot pole.
I've noticed this as well. It's good for everyone, I think, because
fewer and fewer people are willing to support it. The fewer people who
support it, the fewer people who run it. See where I'm going?
I do blame users for it. It's the users that drive the market, not the
market driving the users. Users continue to buy crap, so M$ continues to
sell crap. So it goes with most markets.
You sir, have hit the nail square on the head. People *can* learn how to
use a computer. If you coddle people and fool them into believing that
they need to be coddled, then they will take the coddling solution every
time. It's difficult to get someone out of that groove at first, but in
the end they can turn around and see that there are better solutions out
there.
Additionally, users have accepted that their computer crashes and that
they get the blue screen of death, or that they need to reboot daily to
get any sort of reasonable performance out of the system. Instead of
complaining to the manufacturer, they bend over and take it. It'd be
like cruising along the freeway and having my engine die without
warning, pulling to the side of the road, re-starting the engine, and
then continuing on my merry way. Or having my engine continually lose
power as it got warm. It's unacceptable in other products -- why do
people accept it in computing? I just don't understand it. Sometimes I
hate people.
-Kelsey
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