Microsoft tipping

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 29 December 2003 11:56 am, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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

IMHO, you're just starting to see it with the current Microsoft push of 
windows server 2003. There are more people and entities balking and dragging 
their upgrade feet than ever before. It's fun to watch too.

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