[at-l] Way, way OT Drive and computer Trouble!!

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

The simple answer is that they put all those items in their because it sells
software. Companies are in the business of making money and MS has made the
determination based on tens of thousands of hours in the usability labs,
that they maintain, that the mix they have now sells the most software.

If simpler sold more, then someone would be doing it right now and making
money doing it.

 There were a number of barebones OS wanna-be companies that fell by the
wayside over the years. Remember GEM? Most users only use about 20% of the
capabilities of MS Office, but different users use different 20% blocks.

You may never use some of the applets included in Windows but there are
folks out there using them. The audio program for example is generally rated
highly by third party evaluators, a heck of a lot better than Real Audio for
example. OE is much used as well. And I occasionally use Paint when I need a
quick and dirty bmp. Some of those are a legacy applets anyway.

The big issue you people cannot get around is that MS makes good software,
they may have problems but they are persistent and keep plugging away until
they get it right. They are not making billions and billions producing
shoddy software. And they are spending billions making it better, something
no one else is doing. Apple spend zilch on security for example.

Bryan

 Samuel Adams advised, "Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity,
and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the
sake of the latter."


>
>  > >"...you can fault MS for many things but bugs in the OS isn't
> one of them."
>  >
>  > How come I never had all these problems with CP/M?
>  >
>  > Weary
>
> I think (for me, at least) the most irritating thing about MS is their
> insistence that the OS should be all things to all users. I would
> prefer a
> simpler OS that allows me to run the software I choose. As it is
> I have an
> OS that incorporates a paint program I never use, a camera and scanner
> wizard I never use, an image viewer that I never use, an audio
> program that
> I never use, an email program I don't use, a browser that I never use,
> etc., etc., etc. It is my experience that the "integrated" programs (with
> the exception of Internet Explorer which I still don't use) are
> minimal and
> second (if not third) rate pieces of software that no one would
> buy if they
> were marketed separately.
>
> Not only did MS insistence on incorporating all these other programs into
> the OS cause all their anti-competitive legal difficulties, they also
> created a bloated OS loaded down with stuff I didn't
> need/want/use but that
> eats up hard drive and RAM space requiring ever more powerful machines. I
> would have been a lot happier if MS had focused on creating an OS
> that was
> stable and developer friendly so that the programs I *do* want and use
> would run reliably.
>
>
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