So im picking on an email. its been a long day/week/month and I wanna!!
I was just going to rant and press the delete key but if you can read this
then I decided why not Im gona send it anyways just to see what happens
Risk is only for the small fry, dontcha know.
YEA I know!!!
Please note: this is different from "we should take their money." While I
am no Microsoft fan, I do not want to see them brought down. I *do* want
to see others helped up so that they can provide viable alternatives.
I really dont like this viewpoint, I understand it. I just dont like it. im
in no hurry to hurt M$ in any way. and I dont understand why anyone should
get a help up!! sounds just like many completely broken social policies.
im only partially against M$ being a small business owner I hate it when
people say I have to do things "this way" in order to be "fair" competitive
advantage is why I am a business owner!!! If I dont like HP printers (for
the most part I dont) why should my clients get the choice to use them, they
picked ME to buy from/maintain .... I pick the printer! I take the risk of
fixing something else if it beaks, I take the risk of buying a replacement.
why should I be forced to allow HP printers to work with my software. in
short im a small business and I am not required but more likely because no
one is looking!!!
pre-microsoft computers were a pain.
microsoft did what they had to do to fix it.
and regardless of your like for them or dislike of them, they did alot.
one of the things they did was to set standards, standards they aproved, and
yea so you had to pay to see them but so what, they had help, they worked
with companies to make it work. they pulled it off. if you want to work with
M$ you can they will let you, you have to pay, and you have to play by there
rules, but it works. so you say why do I have to pay to play, well why not,
everyone else does! an auto mechanic doesnt get paid on the same level if he
has to use shop tools! an electrition that shows up at your home or business
with no tools doesnt get the work (at least at my house), ever loan the
plumber your auger to run your sewer line for a clog?? Nothing M$ has done
has stoped superior products from being developed yet I dont see a whole lot
of superior products (its my rant, I know there are a few and I use them
daily). is a choice always a good thing? I dont see that either every M$
product looks the same, and everyone who develops and plays by the rules ON
m$ products look the same, behave the same..... I can navigate all M$
products I dont have to keep up on every new version of windows to navigate
the product, sure the new vista and such has changed things but its not a
big change, just some minor anoyances. yet if i come across a linux box
being used as a desktop now all of the sudden I have to figure out what
OS/windows manager/software is running so I can know wheather to single
click or double click on the upper right or upper left to close the
application. I dont see any progress here. we complain about stability, Ive
seen NT4, 2000 and 2003 boxes run for as long as each has been out, no
rebooting, complain about the desktops most get turned off at night anyways
who cares if it cant run for 300 days in a row!!! M$ calls the business
level software such for a reason live with it. yet I know I can get XP to
run that long, why because when I use it I play by the rules! and what a
thought the rules are made by M$! ever read the toyota manual before driving
a ford (or whatever order you prefere) doesnt make sence to me! anyone got
any reasoning why it should work that way?
lets pick on applications not made by M$ anyone ever play with photoshop
find an open source equivelent??? OK so how about one that is native to
linux, forgetting cost??? sure there are photo editors but nothing even
close. how about premere got a linux equivelent yet??? Illistrator,
quickbooks(talking business desktops here, the "you can run your quickbooks
database on linux" is the biggest joke around, IF you can get it to work),
how about a single PCI complient POS package? none of these are exclusively
made by microsoft (M$ does have a POS software package, though not a very
good one) if your a total geek they kinda hack there way in wine but not
really.... and isnt the point of "you can run it in wine or vmware" missing
the point major big time!!! its an excuse nothing more nothing less. though
Its an excuse I put up with every day, none of my good printers are
supported in linux, so my home/office server has vmware installed and a copy
of 2000 runs inside it with the print drivers installed ready for me to
print from wherever in the world I am, so now I dont need a seperate 2000
box, NICE but its a MAJOR HACK, that I shouldnt be required to do. where is
this lack of progress and if some small company in orange county can make a
printer, create windows drivers, how is M$ limiting your ability to choose,
they choose windows to write the drivers to, M$ didnt stop them!!!
and so we sit here ranting about how M$ did us wrong because we have no
choice, pick any other area besides operating systems and you see it EVERY
DAY, how many of us complain there. better yet how many do anything about
it.
and to believe that sometimes I really HATE M$ ....
and that is the end of my venting
thanks for reading, and I am sure ill enjoy any responses
Richard Reynolds
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