Re: New interview with Woz

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mdj wrote:
> Terry Olsen wrote:
>
> > I don't really have anything against Windows itself. I've been running XP on
> > my pc for a few years and haven't had a single problem. I'm tired of hearing
> > mac people say that Windows sucks simply on the basis that Apple didn't
> > write it. It works fine for me, does everything I want, so I like it. There,
> > I've said it!
>
>
> You are indeed fortunate that it does everything you want :-)
>
> My gripes with it in terms of functionality come down to IE being old
> and buggy, and it not being Unix (thus lacking a CLI that I like)

IE isn't XP.  You have your choice of many browsers--including a
new IE quite soon.

Of course, it isn't Unix...

> Both these things are fixable, and I quite happily use XP in my day job
> without any issues whatsoever.
>
> That said, a lot of the complaints that get bandied about are
> legitimate.

My biggest complaint about PC systems is the commercial software that
presumes to reconfigure your system as if it were the only piece of
software on earth.  This is the evil dark side of failed attempts to
be "easy to use".  Automatic updating has turned many otherwise well-
behaved "passive" products into "active" monsters--even Java.

Terrible examples are camera-supporting software and big, commercial
anti-virus packages.  They are so invasive that installation should
be called "infection".  ;-)

I would almost always choose a "pull" model for updates over a "push"
model, though I know that regular citizens aren't savvy enough to
"pull".

-michael

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