Amem Brother!!!!
I fell Microsoft and to a lesser degree Intel have done enormous damage
to our computing enviorment. The original IBM PC was not designed to
perform the tasks asked of it today. Because for marketing hype and
short sightedness on the part of businesses the machine was never
allowed to develop into a reliable and stable platform.
What has happened has allowed me too make a good living. I do not fell I
am doing truely professinal work when my solution to a major server or
high end workstation is to reload the OS. Not restore from backup but
start from scratch.
--
Butch Knorr
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artificial intelligence is no match for dumb luck
Jim Meagher wrote:
>
> According to PCWeek Direct, MS is ready to release the Windows 98
> "Refresh" and it will be called Windows 98 "Second Edition"
>
> Follow the link below for details.
> http://www.pcweek.com/a/pcwt99031/1014169/
>
> God I love marketing guys!
>
> First we had BUG FIXES. But that sounded nasty so they changed the name
> to PATCHES. But patch still sounded like it was broken and needed
> fixing.... so enter the era of SERVICE RELEASEs.
>
> And now we have REFRESHes and SECOND EDITIONs.....
>
> A rose is still a rose by any other name and defective software is still
> defective software no matter what name you put on the BUG FIX.
>
> Yeah, I know... now all the programmers are going to tell me about how
> complex "today's programs" are and how many lines of code there are.
> Sorry guys, I just don't buy it. My washing machine is a fairly complex
> device too, but it doesn't need an upgrade every six months. OOooh but
> that's a specific purpose device -- it was designed to do one type of job.
> Well, what is windows? The foundation upon which all other applications
> operate. Sounds like a pretty specific purpose to me........
>
> Hasn't anyone noticed the pattern that has been slowly emerging over the
> last few years?
> Sell a new release at the beginning of the year. Sit back and collect all
> the consumer complaint data (beta test????). Then "Refresh" <giggle> it
> six months later. Collect more complaints, and then sell a "new" and
> "improved" version the following year. And I'm not just picking on MS.
> Intuit has released a new version of it's products each year for the last
> three years (QB5 in '97, QB6 in '98, and now QB99). So has First Aid and
> many other products are starting to follow that same pattern.
>
> But we, the buying public, have brought it on ourselves, because we
> continue to buy these products even though we know they are defective.
>
> Somehow, someway, we have lost sight of the fact that by NOT BUYING a
> product, we can be heard much louder and faster than if we buy it and then
> whine and complain about how poorly it performs.
>
> Jim Meagher
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