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MS attitude

is the problem. Their attitude is to offer to people things that look good but are a piece of badly designed and poorly developed code. (Which I call 'Barbie looks and Barbie brains' - aka Barbieware)

That was the fundamental premise MS relied on and MADE billions of $$$ until RECENTLY. It is a fact of life though that you cannot abuse the system so excessively and for so long. Now is the time to clean up house, and there no other delays are possible. However, I seriously doubt that MS will be able to come up with decently clean solutions from this point on. It is in their skin to make products that are visually attractive but that do not amount to anything serious when stability and security comes into play.

They still follow their tried and proven tactics: change the name of the 'platform', change the color scheme, throw in some .net and winfs and off we go again to another crazy cycle of endless repatching/reinstallations and emarassing virus outbreaks.

The irony is that by the time that MS decides AND produces a decently stable and secure system, NOBODY would be willing to fall into its traps again.

But again, the upper MS echellon has so much cash that I don't think that they have any motivation to do the real work. Only the grunt employees are cranking 1000s of wizzard based lines of code every day (hence the endless bloat)..

-m

Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 02/24/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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