Can MS listen to customers?

[kurttrail]

If I say where and who he is, you'll say I'm a stalker.

Don't bait me.

Later,

Andy C.(never #)

Why shouldn't he? He is a master at it. ;-)

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[no_name]

Andy

I tried it.. the first result is without quotation marks

Results 1 - 10 of about 8,330,000 for remove Internet Explorer XP. (0.18
seconds)

This one is with quotation marks

Results 1 - 4 of about 162 for "remove Internet Explorer XP". (1.07 seconds)

Now, I took the liberty of going to some of the hits, and sure enough,
Internet Explorer is a Microsoft product.. but what has the amount of hits
gotten to do with Microsoft?..

I know there was a version of Windows 98 that worked without IE. I think
MS lost a lawsuit somewhere in Europe & was required to make IE
removable under court order.

Google "ieradicator". I used it back when I was running 98. There were
some things built in to IE that interfered with Netscape. Ieradicator
removed them along with IE.

Haven't looked for it for XP since I have a couple of sites I need to
regularly visit that won't respond properly to Netscape or mozilla based
browsers. Don't think the sites work with Safari either.

So I keep IE onboard simply for visiting those sites.

 

[Andy C.(never #)]

SNIP<

Why shouldn't he? He is a master at it. ;-)

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
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To paraphrase Shakespeare in honour of Gerry, "Please, sir, you damn
him with faint praise." I get it. I'll watch my top knot whenever "No
one I know"/Bob I is in the vicinity. You know how those people get
when they've had a few. How many fingers am I holding up, Bobby? Right.
Just one.

Later,

Andy C.(never #)

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Andy

Well even you must know how to avoid being baited!

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[Andy C.(never #)]

Andy

You really are a"twit".

David is well able to fight his own battles if he needs to.

ROFL!!! Again with the sarcasm! Stop it. You're killing me! I don't
care who you are, now, that's funny. Twit? If I remember my Monty
Python, doesn't that refer to all those effeminate, mildly retarded
sons of the British upper class? That would come closer to you, now,
wouldn't it? Why don't you tell me to 'Naff off? That'll do me up right
and proper. Ehh, what?

No more later. Yur making my sides hurt.

Andy C.(never #)

 

[RA]

Hmm. So was the Alberta comment to keep stalkers away from Bob I?

 

[Andy C.(never #)]

Hmm. So was the Alberta comment to keep stalkers away from Bob I?

Works for me. I wasn't aware that there was a city in the province of
Manitoba that shared the name of the province that I was referring to.
I stand corrected.

Later,

Andy C.(never #)

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Andy

The third alternative meaning. It describes you well.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/92/T0439200.html


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[capitan]

You've moved off topic. We were discussing admitting to mistakes.

OK, good plan, let's stay on topic. I wonder why Bill Gates and
Microsoft have not admitted to the huge mistake Windows is yet?

 

[kurttrail]

OK, good plan, let's stay on topic. I wonder why Bill Gates and
Microsoft have not admitted to the huge mistake Windows is yet?

Because stockholders don't like to hear about mistakes, and hold on
those stocks!

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[Gerry Cornell]

Perhaps because Bill Gates, Microsoft and the world as a whole are
not of the same opinion as you!

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[Winux P]

: Gerry Cornell wrote:
: > : >
: >>Gerry Cornell wrote:
: >>
: >>Yes, they ended up living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. Had Kennedy
: >>not gone through the debacle of the Bay of Pigs, I doubt the later
missile
: >>crisis would have ended without a nuclear exchange.
: >>
: >
: >
: > You've moved off topic. We were discussing admitting to mistakes.
: >
:
: OK, good plan, let's stay on topic. I wonder why Bill Gates and
: Microsoft have not admitted to the huge mistake Windows is yet?
:
: --
: capitan

The whole ideal is *not* to make consumers feel bad about their purchasing
choice, but rather the opposite. The Hon. Sir. understands that, as does
Microsoft (marketing especially).

- Winux P

 

[Plato]

Depending on the time of day or whatever, googling "remove Internet
Explorer XP" can return well over 200,000 hits. Maybe the big thinkers
at Microsoft will think that that's an insignificant number, but many

99% of people use PCs to surf. Their OS provides this ability.

 

[capitan]

Depending on the time of day or whatever, googling "remove Internet
Explorer XP" can return well over 200,000 hits. Maybe the big thinkers
at Microsoft will think that that's an insignificant number, but many
people involved in public relations will tell you that for every one
person that gets frustrated and takes action, there are dozens that
simply suffer in silence. Again maybe 10 or 20 times 200,000 is
insignificant to MS. I'd be willing to bet that at some point in time
the number of people that understand that MS's policy of throwing
everything and the kitchen sink into the "Operating System" is a bad
idea will reach a critical mass.

At that time, or some time before then, will MS begin to listen to
their customers?

Come on, guys, you know it's a bad idea, too. Take a leaf from
President Bush's new book. Admit it when you make a mistake.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Andy C.(never #)

http://www.vorck.com/remove-ie.html