Why I Hate Microsoft [A Formal look at the MS/Linux Wars]

EURONET.NL ^ | 06jan02 | frankvw

[TechJunkYard]

Microsoft is pretty heavily regulated by government bureaucrats now.

Yeah... Right...

[Bush2000]

When the jokers in our accounting department got a new machine running Office2000 and started to generate documents that weren't compatable with Office97...

Something doesn't jibe here. Which application? Office 2000 should open all of the 97 formats without any problems.

[Bush2000]

So what? Just because there's multiple serial murderers working the strip, doesn't make any of them less guilty.

Dude, you're so ideologically blind that you don't know what competition is anymore.

[chilepepper]

My point exactly: the Office97 could not read the documents generated by Office2000 and those who generated the documents didn't notice this until they were pretty far along: only THEY could read their documents... (I have no idea what features in Office2000 they used to make this happen since I was standing on the sidelines)

Result: the company bit the bullet and upgraded all the OTHER machines to Office2000 and features that were only marginally better than the ones they already had.

It is merely coincidence that we had layoffs six months later but that extra money would have come in handy in trying to save a job or two. I lost some good friends in those layoffs -- one was so upset that he developed Grey's disease, which can be brought on by stress. He was really devastated.

Did the extra money spend on the Office2000 CAUSE this? Of course not, but by the laws of unintended consequences it may have had an affect...

[PatrioticAmerican]

A "formal" look? How can a biased flame article be "formal"?

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Microsoft are the liberals.

By supporting them, you support abortion and gun control." Are you sure about that?

Microsoft Gun Club

[PatrioticAmerican]

P.S. Does YOUR company have a gun club???

[B Knotts]

We're too small. However, we specifically allow for CCW permits to be honored.

My point was that it's silly to claim that Apple is liberal, while Microsoft is some sort of conservative company. It's not. There are some of each in both companies, and the majority of both tend to be liberal.

BTW, http://www.geekswithguns.com/

[CharacterCounts]

6. Kodak cameras are compatible with Fuju film.

Just don't try to put Polaroid film in it, though.

[PatrioticAmerican]

45,000 employees. You're right, I bet they have their fair chare of each.

[Bush2000]

My point exactly: the Office97 could not read the documents generated by Office2000

You know, when you add functionality to an application, it's only natural that downlevel versions won't be able to use that functionality. I'm sorry to hear about your friend's medical problems but it might have been a good plan to try interchanging documents. Here's a good article on the subject: http://www.ncs.ncsu.edu/ncs/FAQ/Windows2000/Sharing_Files_Between_Microsoft_Office_97_and_2000.htm

"Most of the file formats used in Office 2000 are compatible with Office 97. This means that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created in Word 2000, Excel 2000, and PowerPoint 2000 can be opened and edited in Office 97. Also, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files created in Office 97 can be opened and edited in Office 2000. Because of this compatibility, problems from sharing files between users of Office 2000 and Office 97 should be minimal."

[Wonder Warthog]

"IIRC, IBM pretty much ignored it too; OS2 suffered from it's own maker's indifference as much as anything else.

From reading the history of the time, it appeasrs that one MAJOR mistake that IBM made was charging an arm and leg for the software development tools needed to program OS2 applications. At the same time, Microsoft was GIVING away similar tools for Windows to anyone who could totter up to their booth at COMDEX.

[ProudGOP]

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