Re: OE Is Deleting My NG Headers
- From: NormanM <spammers.are@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:53:33 -0800
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:47:43 -0600, Neil wrote:
"NormanM" <spammers.are@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:09:56 -0600, Neil wrote:
"Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It never made sense and its been a problem since OE4. It won't be
fixed, so if you wish to keep NG messages, you have to copy them to
local folders. That is the only way. People complained about this
for many years and MS just ignored them.
And MS wonders why they're sinking faster than the titanic while Google
acquires their empire (apologies for the mixed metaphor; but maybe in
this case a mixed metaphor is fitting, given the absolutely absurd state
of the software).
Very mixed up. Google does not publish software. Microsoft is only losing
on the web search front.
Really? What year are you living in? Google has Google Docs to compete with
Word, Google Spreadsheet to compete with Excel, Google Calendar to compete
with Outlook, and Gmail to compete with Outlook, and they are providing
functionality to use all of those OFFLINE.
Sorry. My fingers typed other than my intentions. Google does not publish an
Operating System; which is the core business of Microsoft.
I do not use Word, Excel, or Outlook. I use OpenOffice and Pegasus Mail;
neither Google, nor Microsoft.
Furthermore, Google came out with their own browser, Chrome, which not only
competes with Internet Explorer ...
I don't use Chrome. I use Opera, which is neither Google, nor Microsoft.
... but is designed from the ground up specifically for running web apps (i.e.,
once it matures it will probably be a full-fledged operating system, replacing
Windows, just as Windows once supplemented but then eventually replaced DOS).
Until Chrome installs directly on the HDD, and interacts with the hardware
drivers, so you won't need Windows, Chrome will just remain an application
which runs under Windows.
All of these are in their infancy, and their maturity is many years away.
But Microsoft sees the writing on the wall. It's not about Internet search;
it's about a paradigm shift away from desktop apps to web-based apps. And
Google is far ahead of Microsoft in the battle.
The year is 2009. Keep up with what's going on.
I am not really interested in web-based OSes. Those would require an always
on Internet connection. In the event that my Internet connection dies (and
it happens about once a month, whether I like it, or not), my web-based OS
would be useless; my computer nothing more than an expensive doorstop. I'll
stick to a disk-based OS, thank you.
--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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