Re: Windows Sucks
- From: Callmark1 <Callmark1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:20:01 -0700
9:14 PM 5/30/2006
In 1935, IBM produced the IBM 601 punch card based tabulator capable of
doing 1 multiplication per second. 1500 of them were built. Back in the
1940's there were people who complained that the "new fangled" punch card
tabulating machines had too many annoyances and "bugs". The punch cards were
too fragile- they complained loudly- and would constantly jam the tabulating
machine; thus the phrase "do not fold, spindle or mutilate".
Today we can search for "computer history punch card" and receive 121,000
hits containing who-knows-how-much information in 0.04 seconds. Yet we want
more-- we want to have all this and never a bug or annoyance. The problem is
not with Microsoft or Apple, it is with ourselves. We want more and more and
more and when we get it, we complain about the bugs.
I read once that the three computers which run the space shuttle-- the most
complex piece of engineering yet built-- run completely on 2000 lines of
code. Why then must Windows 98 contain 2 MILLION lines of code? In order to
please us of course. And more and more in order to maximize our pleasure--
our desire for entertainment. Yet we complain that all is not well-- things
are much too complicated and error-prone. But that is our right and our
responsibility. We are, after all, the engine of this revoloution.
So complain away if you must. Your sons and grandsons likely will too. And
together we will propell Microsoft-- and any other entity who dares to enter
this most grand of all races-- to greater heights.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
Sam wrote:.
OK, now that I have your attention, I am begging that MS PLEASE FIX
all the annoyances and bugs that plague Windows XP. Each month you
propagate security updates (oh, and yes, the windoze genuine
disadvantage bootleg check) that just add more bugs and instability
to the OS. Please o- Please MS, how about a high priority update that
addresses all of the stinking bugs!
I'm not sure whom you think you're addressing, but just in case you're
confused, let me make it very clear: this isn't Microsoft you're talking to
here.
This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just Windows XP users here,
helping each other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft employees (not
even those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names; that's an honorary
title for having provided consistently helpful advice) except for an
occasional employee who posts here unofficially on his own time.
And to address your complaints below, I don't have any of the problems you
describe and neither do any of the many other Windows XP users I support. If
you have such problerms, instead of complaining, you should be trying to
find out what you're doing wrong, what hardware problems you have, etc.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup
Some high hitting annoyances:
-task bar annoyance - out of the blue task bar will lock up, ALT-Tab
works during this time, after about 1 minute all OK.
-windows goes stupid annoyance - out of the blue, doesn't matter
which app - office or other, you try and open a file, windows gets
stupid for a few seconds while thinking about doing what you want -
you know this stupidity is occurring when you see the tiny
application icon in the extreme upper left corner of the active
window change to a dummy DOS box during this period of confusion.
What crap - talking about Vista? Holy Crap - fix what's out there
now - don't worry about freaking Vista! FIX FREAKING XP!!!!!!
Thanks for reading - I know this will have absolutely no effect on
fixing my windoze troubles, but it sure feels good....
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