Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-=> Roy J. Tellason wrote to Bo Simonsen <=-

 BS> Ahh :-) In a year or so, you don't need to run Windows anymore
 BS> because we have a "finish" maximus. :)

 RJT> I gotta wait a whole 'nother _year_!?     :-(

 BS> No no, I'm just kinda sure of that maximus might be well tested in
 BS> a  year. Most of it works now. :)

I'm waiting to hear "it's done"...  :-)

 BS>  

 RJT> Update on that situation:  I got an email from one "customer 
 RJT> service rep",  and today I got another one.

 BS> I do get alot of Mails from "Microsoft" every day, but they get
 BS> into the virus/spam folder ;)

 BS> But you're talking about those ones from your ISP?

 RJT> No,  not the ISP,  I haven't had much in the way of trouble from 
 RJT> those folks since I switched providers,  I'm talking about the 
 RJT> people who run this web site where I'm supposed to be able to go 
 RJT> and get online learning.

 BS> Ahh! :) But only with Internet explorer.

Or Netscape.

 RJT> So I replied again,  and spelled stuff out.  Apparently it's not
 RJT> just IE,  but also some specific version of netscape that they
 RJT> support.  I told 'em why I wasn't running that,  either -- that
 RJT> it's a pig,  a real resource hog,  and buggy.

 BS> Aha, I mean how defficult can it be to support a extra browser,
 BS> which look like eachother (mostly) ?

More to the point,  how important is it to what they're trying to do that
they need to use all of those browser-specific tricks?

 RJT> I guess their difficulty is in staying away from certain 
 RJT> browser-specific features that somebody figures they just
 RJT> _have to_ use!

 BS> Their argument might be "90% of the internet users today, use
 BS> Internet explorer, so we optimise this page for internet explorer
 BS> and we shit on standards which is widely used in all browsers".

That pretty well describes it,  I think.

 RJT> I pointed out that I have a choice of who to deal with,  while
 RJT> they have customers,  or they don't.

 BS> Indded.

 RJT> Their site name contains the word "Global" and I pointed out to
 RJT> them how lots and lots of people all over the place,
 RJT> particularly outside of this country, weren't running m$ software
 RJT> any more, and that maybe they oughta take note of it.

 BS> Yes yes, now I understand.

 RJT> I'm sure you do -- I just wish _they_ did!

 BS> In some situations people can't understand people like us..

They'll be left out in the cold,  and wondering.  And you couldn't hand
them a clue if their life depended on it.

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