I think you're wrong about the coding abilities of MS engineers.
It's difficult to create a good OS, but not as difficult as MS makes
us believe. It's not even MS that does the programming for 'all PC
setups regardless of hardware configuration and components'. However
it's Windows engineers' fault that it's so time consuming/ difficult
for 3rd party developers to write drivers for their hardware. I bet
you too have seen the articles in computer mags about 3rd p
developers coming to Apple to write drivers for their hardware &
MacOS X. They generally expect 2-3 weeks of work, but are ready after
2-3 days.
Credits for the idea go to PARC.
(I think MS consists of a marketing dept only.)
-Andreas
>Dearest Karina
>
>If your husband works for Microshaft then he is league with the devil and
>should burn along with them!!
>BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
>
>Sorry, only joking...("who let him out?" says the warden...)
>
>But while on the topic I have a bit of confession to make, and forgive the
>completely unrelated nature of this post, but I think Kerry may have opened
>a can of worms giving us the URL...
>
>The idea behind Windows is a great idea and for the engineers to get it
>working as well as they have is a massive task of which I have massive
>respect for. I would love to be able to code an OS that will work on all PC
>setups regardless of hardware configuration and components.
>
>However the fault lies with the Marketing department, not the engineers
>themselves. C'mon, any self-respecting coder will not release a product
>until it's 150% finished - I know if I did I'd get shot and never work
>again - but the managers insist on getting stuff out before it's ready, and
>that's where the problems come. As to MS' market strategy, everybody knows
>how "criminal" it is.
>
>I reckon that we should all force feed Bill the billions of blood-money he's
>got one dollar at a time :-D
>
>P.S. You could argue that if you're a software engineer for Microshaft then
>you have no self-respect, but I'll leave that to you lot ;-)
>
>
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