There is bigger issue. Microsoft OS is junk. Period. We are enslaved to
Windows and all its bugs. Every vendor in the world better do the Redmond
Dance or your product is dead. Whether is its good/bad etc. Over time we
all collect a long list of "can't see myself being too disadvantaged by
this" things, until we find ourselves working in a very small box. MS has
the entire software industry held hostage. I have to admire anyone who goes
into the software business. They are either Captain Courageous or damn
fools. Many of us are spending more and more time fooling around with OS
issues that are eating up our productive time. I see glitches like this in
every software product I use. My agency has spent millions on computer
stuff that just doesn't work very well. And I'll bet virtually all of the
problems lay at the door of Bill's big mansion on Lake Washington. I live
near there - not quite next door - many of my friends are software
developers, LAN engineers, WIN NT experts. Seattle is choked with them. They
all live is a sea of frustration, MS ineptitude and arrogance. MI is not
perfect, its got its problems. We spend > $1000 for a product and we expect
it to work. But it all depends on a $90 operating system and a company that
doesn't really care any more. I think its right to vigorously, but with
civility, complain to vendors about these glitches. MS doesn't listen to us
users any more unless we got out credit cards handy, and then only until we
enter in the last digit. Vendors may have a bit more leverage. Unfortunately
MS has set an example with vendors that its OK for them to act in the same
way.
Richard Hoskins
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ogilvie, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: MI trouble combining complex polygons - the MI Paparazi
> Well, most of us probably wouldn't need to do this, as demonstracted by
the
> fact that none of us found this bug earlier. But it's the principle of the
> thing, finding a fatal flaw in something we all held up to be so great.
Like
> the tabloid headlines telling how the Queen spilt beetroot juice down her
> front, or how Bill Clinton... lets just leave that one! Yes, we are the
> MapInfo paparazi! Welcome to the Dark Side.
>
> cheers
> Mark O.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 20 August 1999 11:56
> To: 'Humphrey, Ben'
> Cc: MapInfo Discussion Group (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: MI trouble combining complex polygons
>
>
> On another matter, why would you want to hold the mouse button down over a
> table in the layer control dialogue box and press esc at the same time
> anyway? It's a shame that MI crashes when you do this, but I can't see
> myself being too disadvantaged by this.
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