Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote:

> > Windows is very easy to assimilate: it looks good. Who cares how
> > well it works ? (I do, but the average person in the street wouldnt
> > even understand the question).
>
> Let's assume that what you say here is true for a moment. Are you
> suggesting that it's a good thing that the average computer user is
> willing to tolerate badly written operating systems (presumably because
> they don't know any better)?

I think what the original poster (Eli The Bearded?) meant was that most of the people in the purchasing seat (ie the guys who control the budget allocations) have zero technical skills, and therefore fall for M$'s sales pitch. To the uninitiated, it looks pretty so it must be good. The sad reality is that M$'s offerings are complete crap on a technical level, way behind the state of the art. Of course, by the time Joe Clueless-Manager realizes this, it's too late.

It's funny, in a few years time, I bet these same managers will be bitching about how locked into M$ they are (in a similar way to the way people bitched about being locked into IBM a few years/decades ago). The situation will entirely be their own fault.

Stick with UNIX: it's stable, it's scalable, it's multiplatform, it's open, and it's here now.

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