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Re: I don't know if Bill Gates is a nice guy or not... Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:29
In Reply to: I don't know if Bill Gates is a nice guy or not..., Craig, Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:03:46 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I approach Windows operating systems like Star Trek - every other one is pretty good :)
You can't diss Win95 or XP - they were both very good at the time. I worked pretty intensely at the consumer level when both came to market and not only was the average computer user pleased as punch with them, but they reduced my Annoying Customer Call counts by a significant margin. In retrospect, it's a big WTF, but in the context of the time they did quite well.
Consider that Win95 brought integrated networking, background file copying, pre-emptive multitasking (albeit not 100%), PCI support, PnP support, and a host of other features two years before OS 7/8 did. That seems trivial now, but these were HUGE features. Apple did what Apple does - refine features until they're perfect before releasing them to the world. Is giving people a rough new feature now better than giving them an elegant feature later preferable? I dunno, it's just two approaches.
Regardless, MS isn't alone in releasing questionably software, the same thing can be said of Mac OSs - a lot of Bad Things happened from release to release, with piles of confusion from users who couldn't understand why minor "point" revisions drastically changed functionality. Explaining to people why they could run 7.4 but not 7.5 or why 7.0 software wouldn't run on 7.2 was a daily routine. IMHO, the System 6.x to System 7.x (and all the System 7 releases) were unmitigated disasters. 7.5.4 was withdrawn the same day it was released it was so unstable!
Microsoft gets a lot of bad publicity and Apple almost none. No idea why that is, but I can say with a fair degree of certainty that each company is responsible for a similar amount of ridiculous activity. I've been involved with both, and each have they have their own fair share of problems. The big difference from my perspective is that while both companies lock the liquor cabinet, Microsoft gives you the key. What you do at that point is mostly up to you. :)
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