Author: Don Dailey
Date: 20:14:03 11/01/98
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On November 01, 1998 at 18:31:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >You're wrong about Microsoft. NT is a robust OS. Windows products help real >people get their real work done much easier. I have been programming computers >since 1976 and I see the real productivity increases. Almost all of them are >fostered by technology MS made available. What are you comparing it to? Compared to DOS, all the windows stuff looks good. Windows actually has multitasking, a big productivity aid! It was several years after everyone else had done it but of course to those who only had DOS (which is a huge base of users) windows presents the illusion of huge technological advancement. Good marketing for Microsoft. > The Linux freaks just don't get it. I am not a Linux freak but I prefer Linux right now. I'll never let a single company dictate which OS I use and will make my own choices. Probably the biggest beef I have with Microsoft is their very heavy handed way of making those choices for you. But I do get it. I recommend Windows to just about anyone who asks for my opinion. In the last 10 years an amazing number of people, usually friends have decided to buy a computer and have come to me for advice. I tell them to get a PC with Windows. There have only been a couple of times I recommended Linux and that had a lot to do with the personality of the person asking for my opinion. >It is a better OS in many ways than NT and clearly much better than Windows 95 >(despite the fact that little useful consumer tools exist -- that is also the >fault of Linux and copyleft software in general, the way they are constructed >makes it impossible to make money safely using them). [Please send flames by >email, Linux lovers -- advocacy threads are always a total bore] But a person >would be foolish to write commercial tools for Linux using copyleft software. I like linux a lot and is my OS of choice. But even linux is old technology. I think we should have had something much better by now than either OS but Microsoft clearly held the market back for years. Unix is not for everyone, but it is for me, for right now. I just can't see myself ever wanting to use Windows and I even tried to like it but couldn't. It just seems broken after using a real OS. - Don
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