Microsoft tipping

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Monday 29 December 2003 10:15 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

New features and convenience produce continued revenue streams.  Security, 
stability, etc don't sell because they aren't visible -- they aren't new toys 
for the average consumer.  If we could just make them sexy somehow...