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silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:

JS> Again, Microft provides us with good and bad news. They finally 
JS> recognize that something is wrong. However, the fix is at 
JS> some unknown point in the future. 
JS> I did not buy Word 5 so it could bomb when i try to use some 
JS> of its best features. Obvciously software will have bugs. 
JS> However, considering that the Grammar Checker bombed for me 
JS> the first time I used it, I am unimpressed that Microsoft 
JS> took this long to recognize the problem. Just on Friday, a 
JS> Microsoft operator denied that there were any known bugs. 
JS> 
JS> Sigh.

And how does this differ from Apple spending almost a year officially denying
any serious bugs in System 7, then up and admitting that "yes, your system can
get fatally screwed, we don't know exactly why, but you could lose access to
most files on your disk."  A year!

And then:  "Here's TuneUp 1.1, which keeps this from happening, but we don't
have any tools available to fix the problem when it occurs.  You'll have to
reformat and restore from your latest backup."  (And, as we all know, even the
best of backup schemes leaves some decent chance for error, or for losing
critical data.)

No, don't bash Microsoft.  Bash an industry attitude that Microsoft only
happens to share along with folks like Apple.

--Adam--
 
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