On Oct 26, 2009, at 00:41 , Dave Close wrote:
I s'pose MSW users can't do anything as useful as pipe an invite into a calendar feeder program. Instead, MS Outlook automatically ingests andprocesses everything - a virus hacker's dream.While Joe may not have stated his points very diplomatically, they wereabout the relative technical merits of the MS platform. He didn't say anyone was a moron, except perhaps by implication, and he didn't tellyou not to use MS. He stated /why/ he doesn't like MS, which is exactlywhat I hear you both asking for. So why this digression? I've yet to hear anyone say Joe's points are incorrect.
Because most people don't want to **** around with external programs, they want it to Just Work.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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