RE: Now I know why Microsoft runs the world

[Daniel L Quigley-Skillin]

Interesting post…   Well the blurb on the website was impressive and the promises would make the world a better place.   Every Microsoft product has promised this as well.   So now after a week and five installs where am I?   Well I have a new modem, not that there was anything physically wrong with the old one though.   I’ve had several modems that Win(X) hasn’t liked.  Let alone the devices that never seem to work after upgrades.  Like my web cam, and scanner.  When I first upgraded to 2000, my soundcard (Creative) caused blue screens.   I can occasionally actually make it dial-up, but only now and then though - tempting it with a new connection sometimes helps.   Did I mention that several Ethernet cards didn’t work?   Every so often when it does decided to dial-up it might even connect, but let me actually see the world outside - now we're in the realms of fantasy.   Blue screens must be acceptable.  Those make you drop off the web too.   Edit the settings you think - we have a solution to that - now it won't even attempt to dial up as you've opened the window, you don't even have to change something.   Sounds like something was done incorrectly <G>  I know I’ve loaded the wrong driver in windows before.   Read the manual or search the web I hear you say. Well the manual is great if everything goes the way it's supposed and Sherlock Holmes wasn't available to deduce some sense from the net articles and I'm sure they'll be out of date by the time I've studied for a PhD in computer science.   Guess I must be exceptionally intelligent or something.  After I read (and struggled) through my first one or two, I started to notice that they in fact were written in plain English (or any other language you choose), and I had been softened by Microsoft, who to please the users calls every bug a “feature”.   So the solution - re-install windows   I’m sorry L   Time taken to get back to what I want - c. 2 hours   The extra things I wanted - well I lived without them in the past, I'll survive.   This is not intended as a flame, merely a statement of facts in rebuttal.   D-