[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Sujal Shah]

On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 09:39, Geoffrey wrote:
> Sujal Shah wrote:
[SNIP]
> Not to mention the whole issue of a product failing (windows crash) and 
> being a perfectly acceptable product attribute.  Point is, if your car 
> stops in the middle of the road, you take it to the shop and they (in 
> most cases) correct problem.  Sure, sometimes they'll not be able to 
> find anything and send you on your way.  But if it happens again over 
> the life of the vehicle, you're going to take it back and they will fix it.
> 

Oh, that reminds me.  Another MSFT innovation is getting someone else to
burden the cost of supporting your product.  I can't believe that the
OEMs are happy being front line support for essentially a whole lot of
MSFT software (since not much non-MSFT software actually makes it onto
new PCs anymore).

Sujal

> With windows and other software, crashing and/or locking up has become 
> an acceptable and expected attribute of software.  Fire it back up, if 
> it works, great.  If it does it again, oh well, as long as it will start 
> working again, it's okay.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
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