__/ [ p5000011@xxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 09 April 2007 23:38 \__
> On Apr 9, 8:06 pm, Richard Rasker <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Erm, excuse me? Could anyone please explain what an animated cursor has to
>> do with certain Ethernet and/or audio devices? What kind of total, utter
>> sorry excuse for a crap OS is this, when plugging a hole in some stupid
>> bit of graphics software causes total failure in the functioning of
>> certain audio and networking hardware?
>
> It is amazing. What is more amazing IMHO is that Microsoft somehow
> manage to get SW out the door that works (as in just works) at all. It
> does look like Vista will be their undoing. Users are just having too
> many problems with it. Many say its because Vista was released too
> soon. Looks to me that it wouldn't matter how long they took. Windows
> is clearly unmaintainable. You just can't keep hacking badly
> designed / written SW. You've got to hand it to Apple. They saw the
> light. Microsoft never will.
They thought about Singularity, but at the moment it seems like a dead end. I
doubt there's any hope or plan on the horizon. The only thing that kept poor
software going was business practices.
I reckon that, as the years will go by, Microsoft will find itself deeper and
deeper in the mud.
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