Of course. DOS 1.0 was perfect, and then they ruined it. Right?
When I bought Level 3 basic for my TRS-80 from an unknown company named
'Microsoft', I sent in the registration card expecting that they would keep
me informed of problems and updates.
They didn't.
DOS 1.0 was a rip off of CPM. A poorly done rip off.
None of their programs have been perfect. But rather than rewrite the
software to FIX the problems while keeping the
SAME 'look and feel' and keeping the same formats for files, most software
vendors opt for making the interface look 'purty'.
It doesn't have to work. It just has to look 'purty'. Extra Purty for XP.
"Oh...that feature? It doesn't work quite right yet but go ahead and ship
it out, we will fix it later, if someone complains."
I have 9 computer on my desk. Several XP pros, a 2003 server, a mac mini, a
power mac 9500/120, a red hat linux machine.
Several of the machines are running other OS's under VMware. For example,
on the linux machine I am running Windows NT4 in a virtual environment.
On my laptop I can run dos, win3.1, win95, Vista, Plan9, WinNT4, WinXP pro,
Win2k, Win2k3, Knoppix, and others, all under VMware, and often do when
testing software.
I USE computers and software to accomplish tasks. I like it when software
'works'. I like it when it works the same way, day after day.
I don't like it when a new version comes out, looks different, acts
different and produces files that are formatted different because I know
that my users are going to be getting or sending out files that other
people can not access and I am going to need to help them fix these
problems.
I don't like it when a company (microsoft, for example) pushes their
'standards' instead of following industry standards.
I don't like it when they 'enhance' e-mail by defaulting their e-mail
client to sending in html.
I don't like it when they make their e-mail client EXECUTE programs (html,
zip files, exe files) that it finds attached to an e-mail.
I don't like it when they write their operating system, from the ground up,
assuming that no one will inject invalid date into any data field.
failing to check for buffer overflow.
There are many things about microsoft that I don't like.
No one is perfect. But Microsoft has take developing imperfections to new
heights with their release of Vista. They fixed a lot of things but MOST of
those were things that they could and should have fixed, years ago, before
shipping Window 2.0
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please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.
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