On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:57:15 -0400, Mick Maguire wrote: > True Confession: I am a Windows software engineer by profession. (ducks for > cover!) So am I. Well, I'm doing embedded stuff now, but I made my living on Windows development (mainly servers, device drivers, and other high-reliability, low-level code) for almost 20 years. > I see and hear people doing Microsoft down all the while, I wont say whether > I think it's justified or not, but keep these points in mind: Without going into the whole long, messy story, Microsoft is the only company that has ever tried to get me fired for reporting a bug in their product. No kidding. And it really was a bug in their product, I had the proof, and I followed normal channels for reporting it, quite politely, with all supporting documentation included. I got to listen in on the speaker phone while my boss told one of their VPs (might have been Ballmer, it was about 1985) to blow it out his tailpipe. :-) I guess you can tell there's no love lost between me and the hordes from Redmond. :-) > 5. I know that Microsoft weren't and aren't pleased with Windows 95 98 98SE > or ME. to be blunt internally the company thinks these are poor products and > wishes nobody used them. Consumer demand created all of them from 98 on, MS > wanted to ditch the 95 technology years ago as the NT technology which ended > up as w2000 was far more stable. Microsoft allowed consumer demand to "create" the 9x/ME products because they couldn't get reasonable performance on games in NT or support for the specialized gaming devices, like force-feedback joysticks and steering wheels. "Common" consumers (not IT pros or developers or people like that) demand games. This point cannot be laid at the feet of the consumers. If MS feels these to be poor products then they have no one but themselves to blame for it. TTYL, DougF - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
