Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Before M$ came along, buying software was like buying any other product; 
> people *expected* it to work properly. 

Ummmm. I'll have to beg to differ with you here.  How much software did 
you use before MS was around?

The thing that MS did that nobody else really did well was integrate 
lots of layers of stuff from lots of people.  You never had one piece of 
software that ran on multiple operating systems before MS. You never had 
reliable device drivers from third-party vendors before MS was around. 
You never had six layers of functionality, all of which had to work 
together, coming from different competing companies, before MS was around.

MS happened to be doing Windows when the complexity of stuff that 
average users saw just took off. *That* is what you're seeing.

> After M$, it became somehow "OK" for software to not actually work 
> properly. If M$ can be credited with one original invention, this is it. 

I'll disagree with this one too. In some areas, software is like that. 
Not in all fields, however. When's the last time your DVD player crashed?

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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