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"DrkKnght" <drkknght@indy.net> writes:

>The company I work for sells, trains users on, and supports a very large
>quantity of Microsoft products.
>Period. They don't pay me, but they certainly do contribute in some small
>way to my household. 

	Have they trained you how to use an editor
	with your newsreader that will properly 
	justify lines in your posts.

>Fact: The biggest problem that I have ever encountered with Microsoft and
>their products stems from
>         companies that are unwilling to train employees. They seem to
>think that it should all be intuitive,
>          while the fact remains that no software, whether it is an
>operating system, or a word processor 
>          is intuitive in nature. 

>Fact: The *only* problems that I have encounteredrelated to Microsoft
>products that result in system
>         crashes are caused by the reasons listed above, or by
>incomplete/faulty hardware.  Users try to 
>        do things that they don't understand how to do, which in turn
>causes a system crash. XYZ Inc 
>         purchases Office 97, not realizing that they need a minimum of 32
>MB of RAM, a Pentium 
>         Processor, etc..etc.. in order to effectively utilize the
>software. 

	You've led a sheltered life then. Care to talk about
	file and data corruption bugs in NT 4.0? The black
	screen of death in Windows 3.x on Novell networks?
	Microsoft's latest security snafus with IE 3.0
	and NT? The tendency of Windows applications
	to overwrite each other's DLLs and bring the
	system to a crashing halt (Winsock madness, 
	wheeeee)? What about the huge security holes in
	ActiveX and Microsoft's lame certification scheme
	to prevent them? And then there's plug and play, or 	
	should that be plug and curse? Don't get me started on plug
	and curse.


>Please note: I comment on things I have seen in the field for the past 8
>years as a field engineer. I have
>been using Microsoft products since the beginning, and have never
>encountered one single problem, except 
>for when I had a faulty SIMM, which was causing a boatload of GPF's in WFW
>3.11. I am not the only one
>either. I have a multitude of friends who use MS products on a daily basis,
>with no trouble at all. Bear in mind, 
>however, that these are computer professionals. 
	
	Hey, if you run nothing but solitaire on Windows you
	won't have any problems either. Sure, keeping
	Windows running isn't too difficult for 
	computer professionals, for everyone else
	though who doesn't like to spend their 
	spare time reading RFCs and studying assembly
	language programming it's a pain in the ass. This
	is why the Macintosh is so great, you don't have
	to be a computer professional to make it work 	
	and to keep it working, you can be an ordinary
	human being. If you want to be a real computer 
	professional run Linux, yeah it's hard to learn
	and sometimes a bitch to configure, but when
	you get it running it beats any Microsoft OS
	that you care to name.


The only complaints I
have
>heard are from third party programmers
>who are attempting to program for NT, or 95, only to find that Microsoft's
>own programmers didn't stick
>to the API's. 
	
	I have a Ruger GP-100 .357 revolver at home, it would 
	be possible for you to load this revolver with one
	round of ammunition (say a Federal 157gr JHP), put the 
	revolver to your head, spin the cylinder and 
	pull the trigger and not have a bullet spread what few
	brains you have all over the nearest wall. In fact 
	you have an eighty-three percent chance of this not
	happening. However if you keep doing it you will
	eventually take a bullet through the brain. Now,
	it might be possible, through an extreme run of
	luck, that you could keep doing this for years
	and not end up eating that bullet, but the majority
	of people who do so will end up dying after they spin
	the cylinder six times or so. So, while you can regale
	us with your wondrous tales of how wonderful and good 
	Microsoft products are I have to look at the horror stories
	my friends (many of computer professionals)
	have told me about MS products, and the large 
	number of horror stories I have heard in the computing
	press about Microsoft's products. I would have to say
	that you've had an extraordinary run of luck.



>Microsoft isn't perfect, but neither is anyone else, and neither are the
>companies/users. I haven't found fault with any of 
>Microsoft's products that I use, but then again, I'm a smart user. 

>Dwayne..

>         
	No Dwayne, you're a lucky user who happens to be
	really ignorant. 

Jamie Jamison

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