I think Tibor and Boanne made some valid points, as far as I'm concerned. I didn't subscribe to this list to glorify Windows, or to discuss the latest Windows crazes or viruses. I'm not impressed with Windows, and don't think it was really necessary to shove the O/S down everyone's throats, the way it was. It must be because I started with the text CL interface, and am used to it, and it doesn't bother me. To me, Windows mainly consists of the Desktop program launcher, the Explorer directory manager, and the multitasker. I really think MS could have and should have packaged each of those separately. But then, people would have only bought the multitasker, to run their regular DOS programs in, and the Desktop program launcher and Explorer would have been ignored. I was already happy with my text Dirlist directory manager, and other text-based or GUI program launchers that I've tried, and wouldn't have needed the Windows Desktop or Explorer. Packaging the components together the way they did, appears a little heavy handed to me; really a marketing ploy, in retrospect. For someone here to glorify Windows, and say how much she likes it so much, etc., she shouldn't be surprised to be bashed a bit for it, as far as I'm concerned. Most of the rest of us only mention Windows in reference to something we're struggling with about it, or trying to get around its limitations somehow, and I wouldn't ever consider that it's a list to discuss Windows per se. It's hard to realize that maybe 90% of all the desktop computer users now, have only been using them the last few years, probably from the early 90's at the earliest, and have never known a world where the way desktop computing is done *wasn't* determined by just one company, a software company at that. The rest of us do remember such a time. It's still a weird concept for me. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sites.netscape.net/wbaldwin To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
