[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:43:11AM -0500, Sujal Shah wrote:
> 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).

I think you have hit the nail on the head. This is Microsoft's greatest 
innovation, outsourcing testing of their software to unsuspecting third 
parties. It must cut down development costs to a small fraction of the 
true value.



 
> 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


-- 
John