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Date Posted: 19:03:10 03/24/04 Wed
Author: mt. healthy mountaineer
Subject: Re: Lose face to who?
In reply to: Bob 's message, "Lose face to who?" on 16:15:36 03/23/04 Tue

Bob: So who, exactly, is standing in their ivory tower passing judgement on MS? How does identifying and fixing a problem cause MS to "lose face"?

-I think I said it was PC World - so the trade press.

-You apparently run with a different "geek" crowd than mine - I have friends that are constantly bashing everything Microsoft!

I have a friend that runs anything but internet explorer and/or windows - he is constantly downloading/buying anything except a microsoft product. He gloats over the need for XP patches and the troubles with all of the viruses out there. Of course, I could point out that the virus took 1/2 to remove and the patches are downloaded in no time flat so my total downtime has got to be less than the time he has spent downloading, installing and tweaking all of his new stuff.

And, heaven help you if you are stuck with an Apple guy. I have one in my class and one I teach with and you'd think that Apple was perfect.

-BTW - don't get me wrong. I have absolutely no trouble with Microsoft. They are the General Motors of the Computer World. They make nice products - not real innovative but they set the standard by which everyone else works.

I do have a couple of specific issues. #1 - one of the reasons for all of these viruses successfully spreading is that the programs are loaded with default "network-ready" (my term, not theirs) so all of the viruses enter and use all of these silly network ports. In my opinion, those network ports should have been closed until opened by the computer operator, something that one of the patches fixed. #2 - as a teacher, I have my students do power points on occassion. If power point fails to save (let's say it fills a floppy) power point responds in the least logical way possible - it shuts down with none of the program saved. I get around this by always saving it to the C-Drive first but it is hard to convince 15 & 16 year olds that they need to do it twice (they always know better). So, yes this is operator error, but...

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