Ok, I'm going to speak up in defence of Microsoft. (I'm not really that
fond of them, and I am thinking of moving to Linux, particularly if
Vista is as bad as I have heard.)
I became anti-Mac when trying to buy one for my then employer. It
seemed like a reasonable deal, until the salesman asked me "what
industry are you from?". This totally put me off. I was trying to buy
a tool to do a job. When I go to the hardware store to buy a
screwdriver, they never ask me what industry I am from.
I learned to appreciate MS when we kept having problems with machines
crashing on the office LAN (all Windows machines). We had deduced that
this somehow involved HP printers, which we had a few of on the LAN. I
was following a Compuserve discussion group about HP products, where
other users were describing the same problem. HP representatives were
saying it was nothing to do with their product. Then an MS
representative posted there, claiming that when we installed an HP
printer driver, if we selected the default installation, it also
overwrote part of the OS (a file called printman.exe, which I think did
the scheduling) with a buggy one created by HP. My experiments on the
LAN confirmed this, we had a ceremonial bonfire of HP install disks, and
that was the end of the crashes.
But there was no apology from HP, no admission that their buggy
scheduler was the cause of the problems. It was people in MS who had
traced the problem and published the answer.
Nick
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