Microsoft tipping

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Alan Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:11:46 -0600
> Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> > In my view, M$ puts ease of use above everything else; Security, stability,
> > scalability, *ility.  They will steal or buy anything to keep ease of use at
> > the forefront.  They actually spend money on R/D for ease of use.  I am still
> > afraid that without that goad in the open source community, ease of use would
> > not ever be a goal.  Speaking as a programmer; Once the program is working, I
> > want to be done.  Spending lots of time making some useless, unneeded
> > interface to a working program just isn't that interesting (or fun).  In fact,
>
> Maybe I'm odd, but I don't find Windows easy to use. I find it obscure,

You're not odd.  I've had similar experiences.  And don't even get me
started on the nightmare that is M$-Exchange.

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