(my opinion:) When Gates was making all the decisions, it was a great company, I remember supporting it. Ever since that lawyer Balmer took over, all they care about is money and destroying competition. He does not know anything about technology, software and could care less about the products. He has lawyers and sales people doing the programming. ME, Bob, XP, Vista is what you get.
I remember when IBM owned the market back in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Then they were famous for backing up the semi with copy machines and suing the competition. They lost their way and almost lost the company. I wonder if we are seeing the beginning of the end of M$? They have a 90+% monopoly so it will take a long time, but I'll bet Balmer and the lawyers can do it. Sad. I remember when they had some of the best programmers in the world. I guess they are all gone now, at least there is no evidence they still exist. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Vista SP1 released to manufacturing. On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Vince Teachout wrote: > Almost. Bar none, the absolute suckiest beyond all sucking was > "Microsoft Bob." Gee, I forgot about that one. It is amazing to think about this. Has M $ *ever* really internally pulled off a significant innovation after BASIC? This isn't an anti-M$ rant: they have made a buck or two marketing the innovations of companies that they have acquired. Seriously: is there *any* significantly innovative piece of software that they created internally? Hardware? Service product? Ken [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
