:spam:ing Microsoft !!!
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And now what I really meant to post...
Microsoft makes decent products. The problem with them is that they want control over what we (the customer) do and how we do it. I don't like that. In fact, it f'ing pisses me off.
OSes - NT3.1 was the first NT if memory serves, so XP is really the 5th iteration of NT - 3.1, 3.5, 4, 2k, XP. NT3.1 and 3.5 weren't very good at all, NT4 was tolerable but still crashed way too much to be considered reliable. Win2k was very good - I just switched to XP on my 24/7 box and I'm already considering going back. XP is better for games but it's still too young, not to mention the plethora of "features" that prevent me from doing things my way.
I didn't cave in to IE until netscape was so woefully inferior (NS4.7 vs IE5.5) that it wasn't bearable. I still think netscape's bookmark file was orders of magnitude better than the
ing favorites thing - which I forgot to copy last time I reformatted and reinstalled (monday). I lost 300 odd bookmarks. It was a non-issue with NS - just copy 1 file that was in the root of the NS folder.
I don't like how WMP connects to the internet (I'm sure it's some ridiculous M$ "update" site) just to play a video that I already have the codec for. I don't like how the WMP Codec pack doesn't have any codecs in it, just identifiers so that WMP can download the actual codec when it needs it.
Outlook is pure, unadultered shit for a home user. Outlook Express is the byproducts of the bacteria that eats the pure, unadultered shit. End of story.
The Office studio... Tough to say - When WordPerfect was around, it was better than Word. Lotus 1-2-3 was much better than Excel. Overall, they're pretty good now, except for trying to do too much for the user. I can type myself, thank you verying much.
I really don't like how MS has gone about buying up every company that presents a slight threat to them... Competition is good, right? Oh - it also shows the deficiency of the company that can't compete on even ground, which is usually M$.
Macs - I don't like them, but the G4 is a damn nice machine (should be for the cost), OS-X is very good and is indeed based loosely on a UNIX kernel, and they are really a much more innovative company than M$.
The iMac is pure garbage.
Microsoft makes decent products. The problem with them is that they want control over what we (the customer) do and how we do it. I don't like that. In fact, it f'ing pisses me off.
OSes - NT3.1 was the first NT if memory serves, so XP is really the 5th iteration of NT - 3.1, 3.5, 4, 2k, XP. NT3.1 and 3.5 weren't very good at all, NT4 was tolerable but still crashed way too much to be considered reliable. Win2k was very good - I just switched to XP on my 24/7 box and I'm already considering going back. XP is better for games but it's still too young, not to mention the plethora of "features" that prevent me from doing things my way.
I didn't cave in to IE until netscape was so woefully inferior (NS4.7 vs IE5.5) that it wasn't bearable. I still think netscape's bookmark file was orders of magnitude better than the
ing favorites thing - which I forgot to copy last time I reformatted and reinstalled (monday). I lost 300 odd bookmarks. It was a non-issue with NS - just copy 1 file that was in the root of the NS folder.I don't like how WMP connects to the internet (I'm sure it's some ridiculous M$ "update" site) just to play a video that I already have the codec for. I don't like how the WMP Codec pack doesn't have any codecs in it, just identifiers so that WMP can download the actual codec when it needs it.
Outlook is pure, unadultered shit for a home user. Outlook Express is the byproducts of the bacteria that eats the pure, unadultered shit. End of story.
The Office studio... Tough to say - When WordPerfect was around, it was better than Word. Lotus 1-2-3 was much better than Excel. Overall, they're pretty good now, except for trying to do too much for the user. I can type myself, thank you very
ing much.I really don't like how MS has gone about buying up every company that presents a slight threat to them... Competition is good, right? Oh - it also shows the deficiency of the company that can't compete on even ground, which is usually M$.
Macs - I don't like them, but the G4 is a damn nice machine (should be for the cost), OS-X is very good and is indeed based loosely on a UNIX kernel, and they are really a much more innovative company than M$.
The iMac is pure garbage.
