Re: Seeing VERSIONINFO under Vista?

My mother, who is 87, finds the search dog cartoon offensive and truly despises the clippy
help. Most people I know, who are actually not engineers, are grossed out by the ...
substitutions for useful information.

It isn't consumers vs. engineers; it is twits vs. intelligent designers inside Microsoft,
and the twits are winning.
joe

On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:37:03 GMT, "David Ching" <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5bcr43tohanns5ho9tqeh7dhrp5mg0m4h9@xxxxxxxxxx
The problem I have with this sort of decision is IT IS NONE OF THEIR
BUSINESS to tell me
what I "should" see. This high-handed "we're doing this for your own
good" attitude is
severely hurting them. These are the same idiots who think that dropping
useful and
important information (such as path names and file names) and replacing
them with "..." is
actually an INTELLIGENT decision (which pretty much proves the Theory of
Evolution: it's
just that some are not as far from monkeys as we would hope).

It's the battle between the engineers and consumers. What's good for
engineers is not good for consumers. And vice-versa. We as engineers are
losing the Windows desktop to consumers.

-- David

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.flounder.com
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