Microsoft tipping

[Alma J Wetzker]

Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> 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...

What I don't understand is why people want to upgrade just because something 
has new features when they don't use 90%+ of the current features.  At what 
point does what you have become good enough?

     -- Alma