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Rod,
Whether or not any of this is true is highly suspect-- especially if it
originated in Usenet as you specified. Why would anyone attempt to
establish a premise for an argument by stating "Microsoft products are so
bad" without stating some proof, specific examples, or at least their belief
about their claim?
I would like to take the other side of the argument-- I realize that there
will always be people who hate Gates and Microsoft --no matter what--
whether or not they have a rational argument to support their negative bias.
Those people will always cling to their beliefs.
I've managed computer networks and used Microsoft products for many years
and find their products to be a serious blessing in terms of cost,
world-wide availability, ease of use, and efficiency.
Gates didn't become the richest guy in the world by accident -- and he did
so despite industry stats that only one out of every seven copies of
commercial software are actually paid for by a user who is willing to shell
out hard earned money to pay for the stuff that he needs-- the remaining 6
copies are pirated.
Why not give credit where it's due? I worked with these machines in the
days when networking and Application management was non-existent or very
clunky at best. The tasks that WinXX/NT perform with ease today were either
not very reliable, very expensive, or required a lot of expertise and daily
technical diligence to keep everything running.
Fortunately, those days are behind us and a lot of credit for the current
state of affairs has to be given to Gates and Microsoft.
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At 09:53 PM 6/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>You may have wondered why Microsoft products are so bad, and
>why they don't seem to have a coherent design. I may have
>found an answer to this riddle in a column by Larry Constantine
>(remember him? Structured Design?) The following is a quote
>from his column in Software Development Magazine.
>
>[begin quote]
>
>In their book, Cusumano and Selby quote Bill Gates himself
>as saying, "There's no 'design,' in the sense of how the code
>works, that's never done in program management."
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