Just a few points to make:
Microsoft did make computers easy to use. They made the first endureing GUI
os. Windows is easy to use, no question about that. The problem is that
makeing it easy to use also made it unreliable and insecure.
Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells,
running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a
completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long
filenames) and a new io.sys. windows 98 is really windows 95 with a few
cosmetic changes.
Anyone tried takeing a hex editor to io.sys. You will find error messages,
boot messages, and loads of stuff you can safely edit. managed to change the
'Starting windows 95' message at startup into 'Shatered windows 95'.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathleen Dickason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 4:32 AM
Subject: [newbie] *delicate cough*
> Oh dear. I am going off-topic here, but I can't help myself...
>
> "Robert McNealy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Nobody "froces" anyone to sell their company. That is a business
decision,
> > most often for the best of the business-owner. Microsoft has the clout
to
> > "buy" its expertise. None of these exchanges can happened with consent.
> >
> I think you mean '"forces"' and "can happen without consent"...not
> trying to be unkind, just to make sure I am understanding you. Uhm. Do
> you know anything about Microsoft's business practices or history?
> Things certainly *can* happen without consent. Ask the folks at
> Netscape.
>
>
> > Many of would not be in the IT, MIS, PC industires if it weren't FOR
> > Microsoft. Through their business practices, they mass-marketed and
made
> > computers easy to use and popular. No one can argue that. Apple did
not, or
> > we would all be rooting for government to chew them a new a--hole.
> >
