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Rob R. Ainscough
If so, who does the listening and how do I contact them? -- simple enough
question no? -- don't point me to the feedback site because that is a
complete waste of my time (I've only received one response from that site
and it was the standard "we're looking into this").
I have called Microsoft, but that usually consists of a local operater at MS
passing me to a international operator that ultimately places me in contact
with someone with a heavy accent from India. When I say I can't understand
them, they start to pissed off at me!! No thanks, this is not what I paid
my dues for (dues being my MSDN subscription at $2300/yr).
If they don't listen, well, their products speak for themselves so I guess
they don't care at all.
OS and dev tools are mostly useless, incredibly buggy, and full of security
issues. The sad reality, there is nothing to fill the gap. Apple have the
slowest OS on earth with very little hardware support from anyone. Linux
has the most cryptic OS on earth that attracts command line lovers and
1000's of OS variants. Can't someone build a truely user friendly secure
intelligent OS that doesn't take 5 minutes to boot and provides a user
interface that doesn't ask questions that the average user could never know
how to answer but must? Surely some wealthy investor can see the missing
80% market and wants to tap into it? Work a deal with AMD/Intel and come up
with a better solution than what M$ provide. M$ need to have some
competition because the stuff they're tossing out the door as "Retail" is
clearly Beta (possibly Alpha).
Microsoft's Qualtiy control has been abandon many moons ago. Security is
really just a joke. Vista is 5 years of absolute wasted time -- what has it
resolved over XP? Hell, RC1 and there are already a ton of security issues
and the OS is still not insulated from the average user. What is this junk?
Yeah, we get DX10 with Vista - whoopee!
I started coding for PCs in the early days (circa 1980) and have watched
them progress, but recently they have started to digress, and rapidly
distancing themselves from reality and how most humans actually want to
interact with a computer. I view M$ OS the same as junk mail I get in my
mailbox -- the OS is designed for benefit of advertisers and spamers -- it's
worse that commercial TV -- it is not designed for humans.
There should be two simple questions "Do you want to see advertisements?",
"Do you want to see junk mail?". There should not be burried away in
Internet Options a "privacey" bar that moves up and down with no real
connection on what exactly this bar does. The pages should render correctly
without the ads. I should get all my Email that is not spam. Etc. etc.
Stop blaming the users and take responsibility. I don't put my money in a
bank and then expect the bank to tell me that the security of my money is up
to me and they can't be held responsible.
M$ stop releasing this junk called and OS, junk called .NET (VS 2005), get
over yourselves, get real, and provide products useful to 80% of the
population not 20%.
Anyone, someone, please make them stop producing junk.
Rob.
question no? -- don't point me to the feedback site because that is a
complete waste of my time (I've only received one response from that site
and it was the standard "we're looking into this").
I have called Microsoft, but that usually consists of a local operater at MS
passing me to a international operator that ultimately places me in contact
with someone with a heavy accent from India. When I say I can't understand
them, they start to pissed off at me!! No thanks, this is not what I paid
my dues for (dues being my MSDN subscription at $2300/yr).
If they don't listen, well, their products speak for themselves so I guess
they don't care at all.
OS and dev tools are mostly useless, incredibly buggy, and full of security
issues. The sad reality, there is nothing to fill the gap. Apple have the
slowest OS on earth with very little hardware support from anyone. Linux
has the most cryptic OS on earth that attracts command line lovers and
1000's of OS variants. Can't someone build a truely user friendly secure
intelligent OS that doesn't take 5 minutes to boot and provides a user
interface that doesn't ask questions that the average user could never know
how to answer but must? Surely some wealthy investor can see the missing
80% market and wants to tap into it? Work a deal with AMD/Intel and come up
with a better solution than what M$ provide. M$ need to have some
competition because the stuff they're tossing out the door as "Retail" is
clearly Beta (possibly Alpha).
Microsoft's Qualtiy control has been abandon many moons ago. Security is
really just a joke. Vista is 5 years of absolute wasted time -- what has it
resolved over XP? Hell, RC1 and there are already a ton of security issues
and the OS is still not insulated from the average user. What is this junk?
Yeah, we get DX10 with Vista - whoopee!
I started coding for PCs in the early days (circa 1980) and have watched
them progress, but recently they have started to digress, and rapidly
distancing themselves from reality and how most humans actually want to
interact with a computer. I view M$ OS the same as junk mail I get in my
mailbox -- the OS is designed for benefit of advertisers and spamers -- it's
worse that commercial TV -- it is not designed for humans.
There should be two simple questions "Do you want to see advertisements?",
"Do you want to see junk mail?". There should not be burried away in
Internet Options a "privacey" bar that moves up and down with no real
connection on what exactly this bar does. The pages should render correctly
without the ads. I should get all my Email that is not spam. Etc. etc.
Stop blaming the users and take responsibility. I don't put my money in a
bank and then expect the bank to tell me that the security of my money is up
to me and they can't be held responsible.
M$ stop releasing this junk called and OS, junk called .NET (VS 2005), get
over yourselves, get real, and provide products useful to 80% of the
population not 20%.
Anyone, someone, please make them stop producing junk.
Rob.