Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Glen wrote:
> 
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> The funny thing is that A lot of windows products like to rename things
> that have existed long long before they created their version of them.
> 
> Some windows only admins, techs, and programmers only know the MS names
> for things and not the real names!  (The more skilled ones of course do
> know what stuff is).
> 
> I worked at a windows only PC shop for a very short time recently.  For
> example some Windows PC hardware techs will not know what you mean if
> you refer to the "filesystem".  They know "FAT", "FAT32", and "NTFS" but
> they may not know a filesystem is a general concept that most OS have.
> One guy was talking about Unix (which he probably has only read about
> not used) and refered to the unix filesystem as "Unix NTFS"!!
> 
> God help him get a clue!  Unix predates NT by about two decades.  They
> did not copy NTFS, NTFS copied unix.  [NTFS uses the same basic method
> to access files as the standard unix machine does]
> 
> "Embrace and Extend" microsoft called it. They don't want to reinvent
> the wheel if they dont have to.
> 
It is "innovation" that Mi$uck likes to tout...and then "embrace"
other people's innovations and "extend" their long tentacles into
the technology until they own the market for it.
>
> The new motto of MS is "two heads are better than one".  Which means
> they are going to outsource all they can to India.
> 
It really means that one of the heads is the head of a competitor...
a competitor that is now out of business...
>
> As much as I used to hate "Exbrace and extend"  I wish they stuck to that.
> 
I wish Mi$uck would take a long walk on a short pier...


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