Author: Marcus Kaestner
Date: 00:47:26 10/14/99
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>What I know is that everything is unstable under Windows. The very principle of >allowing anybody update the system DLLs is incredibly fishy. > >Microsoft has set the quality standard of software under Windows: >1) provide your crap to the customers as soon as it is written, so your product >is the first on the market. >2) Then and only then, test your program. >3) Then provide updates. Your customers are so busy downloading your updates, >testing them, and ask for the next update that they completely forget that they >could use somebody else's software. > >The funny thing is that even your competitors are going to be very busy with >your updates, so they will be late in providing their own products. > >How customers let this happen is still a mystery to me. > >It looks like Mindscape has taken a lot of risks by adding a lot of multimedia >stuffs (DirectX drivers for example), when adding just one is already very >risky. > >Mindscape has just learned the lesson from Microsoft. It's not their fault. > > >Just a note to MSVC6 users (this has been said before but it's worth saying it >again): > >The MSVC6.0 C++ compiler produces INCORRECT CODE when you turn the "optimize for >speed" option ON. Microsoft admits this publicly on their Web site (I let you >the pleasure to find the page yourself). How many bugs do you want today? > >But they are nice people. They have published the "Service Pack 3" (SP1 and SP2 >did not correct the code generation issue), and you can download it. It will fix >all your problems (they say... I don't believe it anyway). > >You just have to download the 120MB (yes ONE UNDRED TWENTY MEGABYTES) patch. > >13 hours download, if everything runs smoothly... > >I love them so much... And I say hello to all IE4/5 users... > very humoristic, christophe, and: RIGHT!!! marcus
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