From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44ac471c{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>     A neighbor of mine told me I had a bad system file and suggested I
>> reinstall my Win XP program. I told him Gateway did not provide such a
>> program. He told me he'd let me borrow his install disk and that by
> running
>> it, the bad file would be replaced. We did do the reinstall and
>> lo-and-behold the dial-up / FAX conflict was resolved!
>
> Users helping users fix problems, ha imagine that..
>
> I mean how the hell can Microsoft think there are so many people pirating
> their damn OS when it fricken comes preinstalled on everything?
>
> Oh we can't provide you a REAL CD cause you might pirate the OS? Who comes
> up with this logic? What, hard drives never fail? Nobody ever reinstalls to
> fix a problem?
>
> You know what I think, I think Microsoft needs to be rebooted because
> something is seriously fucked up over there.
>
> Geo.
>
>

& the only thing which will change them will be serious competition &
the resultant large scale job cuts.

MS's relationship to "customers" reminds me a lot of gov
departments relationship to their "customers". i.e. "let's
use the word customer to give the impression that we're at their service
but hey it's a bit of a fiction...."

However I think that point is approaching & it will be either Vista or
it's sucessor which is the tipping point.

Mac is now on intel & Linux is frankly getting not just "good
enough" but in many ways "better than" (esp in a broadband
world where each distro repo has just about any app you could wish for for
free just waiting to be picked in the install manager).

& that's before you get onto the google/web apps / network is the
computer pov/argument.

Adam

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