Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:28:25 12/02/01
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On December 03, 2001 at 01:12:50, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>Hi Cristophe, please calm down :-)
>
>First, I wrote "one of your complains". I did not wrote "main complain", or
>"only complain". And you several times wrote here -- "Windows 98 is nice OS, you
>just must change lot of default settings...". For me it looks like complain, no?
>Now you have exactly the same problem, and suddenly you lost all your sense of
>humor...
I do not have exactly the same problem.
"One" of main complain about Windows is that it tries to stuff as many things as
possible into my computer, to the extent that my computer becomes unusable and I
am forced to buy a new, faster, bigger one.
I'm certainly not trying to do that with my own software.
Anyway I have a fix for the "Windows syndrom": I use 98lite to strip out the
unwanted stuff, because I'm not exactly pleased to see my computer turned into a
gigantic advertisement platform for Microsoft.
Apart from that I can very well imagine the kind of nightmare it is for MS
programmers to adapt to all the possible hardware/software combinations and I
admit that you guys at Microsoft have done an immensely respectable job.
I think you are still mixing me up with some lambda anti-MS basher.
I know that Microsoft has managed to build a very interesting operating system
that I used to like a lot (up to W95).
It is because I liked this OS so much that I'm disgusted to see it turned into,
as I said above, an advertisement platform for Microsoft and a resource hog. It
does not have to be this way.
And I can very well imagine the kind of internal war there can be inside
Microsoft between the marketing guys (or even the head of the company) who wants
to add the fat, and the skilled engineers who would like the OS to be as clean,
fast, and resource friendly as possible.
>Second, here I mentioned MS only to confirm that you are not the only developer
>who has problems with the users :-)
As would say Sarah: I'm sure that when you posted you thought you had a point.
:)
>And third, you ignored my answer to your question "What should I do if user is
>doing something stupid?" -- instead just suggested to start [anti-] MS
>discussion once again [that's probably partially my fault, I put not enough
>smiles in the message].
I can only repeat that I have a lot of admiration for the people at Microsoft
who have to deal with so many hardware/software combinations, users doing stupid
things, and who manage to get the OS, more or less, running (most of the times
it works well).
If only the energy that is spent in turning Windows into an advertisement
platform for future MS products and services was spent into making the OS even
more compatible and stable (and fast and compact, one can always dream...), I
would be the greatest MS fan.
But all that energy is spent in trying to expand the power and monopoly of the
company in many keys area, using the OS as a trojan horse. That's what ".NET"
is.
I'm sorry, I do not like that.
Christophe
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