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Article #1186Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
From: REE700A
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:46
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:46
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Among the dozens of other excellent reasons given, who could love a company that has monopolized the PC world with trash and whose only decent program is Word (for the Macintosh!!!). Finally, Word for Windows 2 is a decent port of Word Mac - but it runs under windows, which is marginally capable of dealing with any above-average hardware! SCSI, which should be a standard in all pc's, is problematic to Windows. Why the FUCK does this translate to a problem for SCSI's viability instead of a problem for Microsoft!? Why is it only Microsoft software that I see and hear about memory parity errors on several classes of computers - yet Checkit and others report the system is fine?! Why does telling the user that a UAE is really an unexplained page fault - General protection fault constitute the elimination of bugs (UAE's) from Windows 3.0 to 3.1?! Why is it the third part vendors' fault that UAE's occur, when (a) I get them with nothing but Microsoft Shitware loaded and (b) Microsoft hides features that are absolutely necessary to perform a function (like real mode addressing to hardware in 386-enh mode) so that the third party software vendors have to cheat, lie and steal to get a segment descriptor that Windows already has but doesn't document? In short, Microsoft carries the attitude that they can claim to serve the most varied hardware platform ever with one release of a shell over a system monitor, pass it off as an operating system, hide the features of the system from the user and other (competitor) developers, and finally blame the hardware & third parties for their shortcomings! Too bad OS/2 was so fucking hard to configure for non-IBM hardware. Sure, I could have gotten it to work & probably would have loved it... When is Apple going to write System/7 - PC? What apps run under BSD freeware Unix?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!decwrl!bu.edu!dartvax!mars.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!ree700a From: REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft? Message-ID: <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Date: 27 Aug 92 16:46:36 GMT References: <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug25.212758.2951@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug27.114422.19944@actrix.gen.nz> Organization: University of Maine System Lines: 31