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Its not really his fault. The problem is that learning the Microsoft way of doing things uses up all your neurons on useless information (e.g. - pull down this menu, then enter this value, then change the registry to this value). one ends up learning arbitrary recipes which are exactly equal to superstitious behaviour.

If you go back about 30 years, you find exactly the same sort of partisanship amongst the old IBM mainframe specialists, MVS, CICS and so forth.

Those who specialised in such things had an extremely difficult time applying that information to anything but CICS, MVS etc.

As a result, their entire livelyhood was so dependent upon IBM that it became just like a religion, IBM became GOD because it kept food on the table and the Fidelity Brokerage account full...

That was all fine and good until the paradigm shifted. Just as it has now.

REMEMBER THAT THE ENTIRE WWW PHENOMENA WAS BORN ENTIRELY FROM

Open Source [Mosaic anyone?]

REMEMBER THAT THE ENTIRE NETWORKED WORKSTATION PHENOMENA WAS BORN ENTIRELY FROM

Open Source [Apollo Domain anyone]

What Microsoft wants with WWW and the internet is to technically freeze it and feast on its carcass...

SO WHAT INNOVATION HAS MICROSOFT EVER COME UP WITH OTHER THAN IT EULA?

Thats easy: large scale Virus and Remote Administration Trojans infectation and distribution suitable for cyberwarfare by enemies of the United States.

Just a historical note, P.J.Leech once told me that the Apollo Domain operating system was tongue in cheek named after

Public Domain software funded by the U.S.Air Force...

It was DARPA that got the whole www thing started, Mosaic was the Browser pack that put the multiple processes together so that the TCP/IP networks could be used creatively beyond simple messages and chat bulletin boards.