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My view on yesterday's posting | by leowic | 2001-11-07 07:31:54 |
| Not much I like about the modern stuff. |
by pecosdave |
2001-11-07 11:35:41 |
But Microsoft did write my favorite "productivity suite" of all time. MS Works 1.05 for DOS. All of the hotkeys where what they should be, a mouse was definately optional, it ran great on my IBM PC Convertible 2 with IBM DOS 3.x with less than 1 MB of RAM. With that said it produced beautiful output and it was very easy to link databases, spread sheets and documents. And the whole thing (at least what I used) fit on a single 720K floppy.
I really started to hate Microsoft about the time 95 came out. I didn't mind 3.x so much because I could exit and do work in DOS without it being much overhead. DOS at least was a decent OS in my opinion, and it was an OS unlike the 3.x and 9X shells over it.
Times have changed. I now use Star Office for all my personal work. I'm still an MS slave at work, but at least I can put Star Office on every PC I own reguardless of OS. The only reason I even have a Windows machine at home is to VPN into work and yes it's a legal copy. Even though MS has esculated from the good strong software company with a bright future to the Evil Empire I still belive I should pay the tax if I use their software, even though it's no longer willing.
I will defend Win 2000 to a point. It was the first big step MS made into becoming more Unix like (Documents and Settings ~ home, better memory management) and they actually improved over the previous versions dramaticaly. Much less "I'm NT some I'm not gonna run it." attitude and also a lot less "I'm not NT so I'm gonna crash." attitude. What I don't like is the patches called new releases that introduce, and often reintroduce old bugs.
I'm sitting fat and happy from supporting their products so I have a lot to thank MS for. The introduction of a user friendly interface to a PC did a lot to increase demand enough to make hardware cheap. That doesn't mean they can't be dethroned and replaced with something better/cheaper. |
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