-=> 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_!?     :-(

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

 

 RJT> Update on that situation:  I got an email from one
 RJT> "customer 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
 RJT> from those folks since I switched providers,  I'm talking
 RJT> about the people who run this web site where I'm supposed
 RJT> to be able to go and get online learning.

Ahh! :) But only with Internet explorer.

 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) ?

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

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

 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!

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

 

 RJT> My brother is among that group,  he describes himself as "a GUI
 RJT> kind of guy" and sees the computer as an appliance,  a tool to do
 RJT> certain jobs,  and that's it.

 BS> In this network most of us see's it as a hoppy :-)

 RJT>  But his eyes were opened when he went from home to work with a
 RJT> floppy one day and all sorts of info _from his home machine_
 RJT> started showing up on the machine at work!  All because of a
 RJT> ".doc" file...

 BS> Cool! ;)

 RJT> That's m$...

It was kinda ironic. :)

Bo


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