“[BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH]”
I remind Free Republic of the real truth in this matter: the media. I was there during the “OS Wars” between Windows and IBM’s OS/2. By any measure, OS/2 was a better OS, more secure, more reliable, more efficient, more functional, than Windows.
OS/2 was based on a solid, modern object-oriented foundation. Windows was a kludge of patches tacked on to the ancient DOS foundation. Many of those patches are still in current versions of Windows.
But the media was in love with Gates, Microsoft and Windows. The media pulled the same crap on OS/2 and Windows as they now pull on liberals vs conservatives.
Windows flaws were not reported by the media. OS/2’s features were downplayed. IBM was “bad” while Microsoft was “good.”
I was there. I remember Mary Jo Foley and her ilk mis-reporting everything.
The media gave us Clinton, they gave us the current Democrat congress and they are trying to give us Obama.
Blame Gates and Ballmer, but the real culprits concerning your computer problems were the media. They are responsible for your “Blue Screens of Death” and your hours of wasted time trying to solve Windows-based problems.
I remember when OS/2 v2.0 was released: It was amazing. Same thing with Novell. Technically a far superior NOS to anything that Microsoft had out. But what did I constantly hear? "It doesn't have a graphical interface!" IT DIDN'T NEED A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE!!!
Although in this case I do have to share the blame. Novell has pretty much killed every excellent product they've ever produced or purchased. They couldn't market space heaters to eskimos!
Mark
I’m beginning to understand why other nations have the government have complete control of the media. Not that I advocate that for the US, but the MSM is a monster out of control that destroys.
Thanks for relating your experience. Extrapolating that (the media’s influence) into the social/political arena is also useful. I agree with you. Couple that with dumbing down our society through control of education and you see how close the left has come to total control
I also think the election system has been gerryrigged (voter fraud).
Are we suggesting that Windows is just another bad liberal idea, full of unintended consequences? :-)