Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

sheercon@earthlink.net wrote:

>
> Ahem... "quality" on Microsoft products is non existant. Microsoft software is
> poorly written and bug filled - so much so that it is has been seriously questioned
> whether or not the bugs were purposely put into their programs to keep people
> upgrading. The average person does not have a choice when it comes to an OS; 95% of
> all software is written for Windows - so if you or your company needs a particular
> piece of software in most cases you have to buy Windows. Microsoft has even bought
> software companies to insure that the software would not be written for any other
> platform. They have monopolized the software market - and you will end up the
> loser. Technological advancements are sacrificed for the sake of backwards
> compatibility and to keep Microsoft's hefty monopoly in place.  And incidentally,
> Microsoft has just now got around to putting features into their OS that Mac's have
> had since the mid 80's.
>

As well as 80% of all new hardware. Have you ever tried to use a PNP modem on
another system. I just trashed a couple of 56k internal PNP Winmodems in lieu of
externals. At least these don't force Windows to do more work.

Phoenyx