Posted on 01/31/2014 7:04:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You wouldn’t want to interfere with the hate fest, would you?
HA!
My brother in law met him - thought he seemed like an unassuming guy. Another relative works at the Gates Foundation where the goal is to give away all the money. My relative is very happy there.
“Microsoft has a historical culture of moving slow and not failing.”
I’d like to visit the alternate universe the author appears to be visiting from. Perhaps, he’ll let me use his worm hole.
Microsoft has a historical culture of shipping half-finished product out the door, then using service packs to fix the bugs. Most people know that a new Windows version is actually still in beta testing; and you have to wait for SP2 (at least) to have a product that’s ready for prime time.
A couple of decades ago, I read a book contrasting the MS culture, with that of IBM. IBM really did move slowly, and methodically (comes with the mainframe business). MS was known to rush things to market, and patch over the problems after they’d gotten the jump on competitors.
Holy hell! You mean there's two of you??
I actually like WP — it's what I use to make my brochures and my [amateur] writing.
I think Corel could wipe the floor with MicroSoft if they took a little bit of a gamble and rewrote it in Ada w/ formal verification: this would make it extremely portable and ensure it free of errors. (Imagine being able to say our program cannot cause your computer to crash, and no bad input will cause the program to crash.
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Untold millions of people use Bill Gates' Office Suite. You don't like it so you call him names. And HE is the totalitarian... Really? What have you done with YOUR life, squib?
That is truly an original and thoughtful observation. I quite like it.
So do I. Since the days when you used the Word install floppies as coasters (and there was no such thing as Windoze..)
It’s too late for Microsoft to ever resurrect its early success. There just aren’t enough MS employees who care anymore. Once a company loses its entrepreneurial spirit, it’s on a downhill slide.
I am radically ticked off using MS Office now because the latest incarnation of Office and Windows 8.X have thrown KISS out in favor of HMI chaos.
Lol
Freepers kill me...really
Free Republic has serious warts that pop up from some quarters
Making light of careless folks who get killed is one
This populist resentment of rich people is another
Its a tightwad forum...a fair amount of bitterness...look at the freepathons lack of partucipants
Same folks rationalize not tossing JR a couple of bucks a week likely detest Gates or Ellison or Zuckerberg etc
I don’t agree politically with any of them but I don’t resent nor disparage them
Still is.
Just ask Steve Barkto.
Heck, Geoworks supplied free by AOL was in the early days left early versions of Windows in the dust. A fully set of apps running over DR-DOS on my 640k Toshiba 3100e and a half card modem made me a road warrior. Well written and tight code that ran fast on the 286 cpu. The WYSIWYG word processor was unsurpassed in ease of use and features. IMO still my favorite WP. After AOL dropped it for Netscape, IIRC, it withered away. Still, I ran GeoWorks Pro for quite a while on my 386 machines.
Oh, the days of VisiCalc, MultiPlan, ...
I remember being on campus in ‘94. The OS’s were NT 3.5 and WFW 3.11. There wasn’t yet an established default protocol for campus networking configurations and consequently one would encounter a mongrel mix of NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, and TCP/IP. Some buildings would employ DHCP but even that wasn’t standardized yet.
Access to the Internet was through a proxy server and was “invitation only”.
I'm sorry, I did not know that. If that is so, I stand in the street with you, and using much more foul language than you. That is such and evil program.
I thought he only messed with software. I'll have to look more into this.
“Microsoft killed them too.”
BS. Novell killed themselves. Like Borland and others they simply produced lousy software for a high price and stopped competing. Bill didn’t have to have the most perfect software; he simply showed up every morning and competed. The rest flew off in their expensive jets, literally.
“Same folks rationalize not tossing JR a couple of bucks a week likely detest Gates or Ellison or Zuckerberg etc”
Perfectly said. Tightwads. Liberal minded, really.
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