Thank you John. It's nice to see someone "outing" the many crap
practices of M$. I had to deal with many of them when I was working on
PageMaker 4.0 for Windows back in 92. PM 4.0 was held up for more than
a year as M$ tried to get a working beta we could test against.
I ended up switching to the Mac team eventually. Too much 8 pm pizza
for too long.
On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:27 , John Sessoms wrote:
From: Anthony Farr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of
> Cotty
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:16 AM
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> Subject: Re: OT - British PM
> > On 23/2/09, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
> >Comes up with a message box that sez I gotta' use Internet
Exploder to
> >watch it.
> > It's a crap website. I can watch on Safari and Firefox on a Mac.
> > --
It worked OK on Chrome, but I had to allow all cookies which I hate
doing.
Interestingly, the system detection told me I was using Safari in
Windows NT
5.1 (I'm actually on WinXP Home. Apparently (in my untrained
estimation)
Chrome is a Safari based browser even though there's no Safari for
Windows.
All Micro$shaft current WinDOS "operating systems" are actually
Windows NT dressed up in the emperor's new clothes; Windows NT 2000
and WindowsXP are Windows NT 5.x and Vista is Windows NT 7.x.
Windows NT 6.x is a version of Windows NT Server.
There's nothing in the new versions except bug fixes to undo the
damage done by previous bug fixes and some unwanted changes the
shell so previous versions of M$ Office and other M$ applications
stop working forcing you to "upgrade".
All the new names are just a legalistic gimmick to evade antitrust
oversight and evade contractual obligations; like naming Windows 95
was intended to break away from the "Windows x.x" name hierarchy
which was, in fact, a trademark owned by IBM and due to revert to
IBM in 2000.
It's like when Intel named their new "586" processor "Pentium".
When IBM selected the Intel 8086 for the first generation IBM PC,
they required Intel to have a second source for CPU chips in case
Intel couldn't meet demand.
Intel contracted with AMD, but the contract allowed AMD rights to
subsequent x86 processor generations, and AMD was able to enforce
their rights in court when Intel attempted to abrogate the contract
when the Intel 80486 chip took off.
There's some interesting things about Windows that are not widely
known.
The first successful version of Windows, Windows 3.0 was written by
IBM, because Microsoft was bogged down with OS/2 v.1.0 (which sucked
like a Hoover). IBM had to take over writing OS/2 and produced first
a bug fix, OS/2 v1.10 and then OS/2 v2.0, which was the first really
good version of OS/2.
Windows 3.1 was an add-on written by Microsoft that added no utility
to Windows itself, but made programs written to Windows 3.1
"standards" unable to run under OS/2 v.2.0 ... which IBM immediately
fixed by releasing an OS/2 v.2.1 upgrade.
OS/2 v.3.0, AKA WARP, was fantastic, rock solid & stable; did
everything Windows 95 promised and couldn't (including full support
for USB)... 9 months before Windows 95 was even vapor-ware - but IBM
literally couldn't give it away.
Doing just that was seriously discussed in the PC Company where I
worked, but the idea was discarded after objections by IBM's legal
department, for fear of the U.S. Justice Department's reaction. In
1994, while I was working there, IBM was still operating under the
antitrust consent decree they signed with the U.S Justice Department
in 1956.
One of my jobs was to work out memory management on IBM PC DOS 7.0
running on a Thinkpad 755cd so it could have 720k of conventional
memory available so Microsoft's sales force could load their
"Windows 95 demo".
The easy way to do it was run a virtual DOS machine in Warp (OS/2
v3.0) and tell it to use 720K, but Microsoft didn't want to do that.
Anyway, OS/2 had great technology and no marketing, and was buried
by Microsoft's fantastic marketing of their nonexistent technology.
Frickin' IBM couldn't sell ice-water in hell.
BTW, if you pull up the version information for Windows 95, it will
tell you it's MS DOS 7.0
PS BTW, I dragged out Internet Exploder (I didn't bother to expunge
it from this system, just hid it away) and watched the video. It
*IS* fairly smooth and un-bouncy.
Does modern commercial video equipment include image stabilization?
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