🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <nelsoni.820858995@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>,
Ian S. Nelson <nelsoni@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
>jeffj@io.com (Sakura) writes:
>
>>Actually, I hate Microsoft because it puts out poorly coded, half-assed 
>>excuses for real applications.  I hate it because I have to use Win 3.11 
>
>I disagree with this line.  MS hires programers (er coders) based largely on
>the quality of their code.  As far as coding goes they probably have one of the
>best houses in the world, they are very liberal and will hire anybody that 
>writes good code. (even high school kids...)  There applications are poorly 
>engineered, that is the difference.  If you start with a crappy design (eg 
>Windows sitting on top of DOS) you will end up with a crappy product no matter
>how good you are at writing code.  When you have pros do your design work (like
>was done with NT) then you come out with a much better product.   (NT is, in my
>honest opinion, a much more stable and powerful platform and I see it as a
>much bigger threat than MS's desktop oS of the year.)  

I stand corrected.  I feel bad for the poor saps who have to work for
them, and in the Windows system...I keep hearing good things about NT
though - maybe I'll find someone who has it someday & try it out. 

ObM$Bitch: Why are the keyboard equivalents for MS Word different from 
those for any other Mac word processor?  They always trip me up.  *sigh*