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- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:46:36 GMT
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- Among the dozens of other excellent reasons given, who could love a
- company that has monopolized the PC world with trash and whose only
- decent program is Word (for the Macintosh!!!). Finally, Word for Windows
- 2 is a decent port of Word Mac - but it runs under windows, which is
- marginally capable of dealing with any above-average hardware!
- SCSI, which should be a standard in all pc's, is problematic to
- Windows. Why the FUCK does this translate to a problem for SCSI's
- viability instead of a problem for Microsoft!? Why is it only
- Microsoft software that I see and hear about memory parity errors on
- several classes of computers - yet Checkit and others report the
- system is fine?! Why does telling the user that a UAE is really an
- unexplained page fault - General protection fault constitute the
- elimination of bugs (UAE's) from Windows 3.0 to 3.1?! Why is it the
- third part vendors' fault that UAE's occur, when (a) I get them with
- nothing but Microsoft Shitware loaded and (b) Microsoft hides features
- that are absolutely necessary to perform a function (like real mode
- addressing to hardware in 386-enh mode) so that the third party
- software vendors have to cheat, lie and steal to get a segment descriptor
- that Windows already has but doesn't document?
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- In short, Microsoft carries the attitude that they can claim to
- serve the most varied hardware platform ever with one release of a shell
- over a system monitor, pass it off as an operating system, hide the
- features of the system from the user and other (competitor) developers,
- and finally blame the hardware & third parties for their shortcomings!
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- Too bad OS/2 was so fucking hard to configure for non-IBM hardware.
- Sure, I could have gotten it to work & probably would have loved it...
- When is Apple going to write System/7 - PC? What apps run under BSD
- freeware Unix?
-