>> Do you have any evidence at all for that statement, or are you still 
>> making things up as you go along?
>
> How about the fact that most other software companies manage to produce 
> software of a higher quality than Microsoft,

That's not evidence that MS are not trying, that's your experiences.

Did you even read the Wikipedia link I posted?  There's plenty of evidence 
in there that they are trying pretty hard to get it right.  I mean who would 
release a dozen builds to the public while incorporating the feedback if 
they didn't care?

> That, at least, is a geniune problem. It's impossible to please everybody.

Exactly, and hence some people are going to think it's worse than before. 
And when you sell a huge number of copies, that's also a huge number of 
people that think it's worse, even if it is the optimum design for the most 
number of people to like it.

> Other companies don't seem to need to use dirty tricks to get your money. 
> (In the main, anyway.)

Stop listening to a bloke down the pub bashing MS (or the web equivalent) 
and try searching and reading for facts.  99% of what you've written about 
MS in this thread has been false, you know that's illegal right?  If it was 
my company you were saying all that stuff about in public then I'd sue you.

> And exactly how many people know that OpenOffice exists?

How many people knew that FF existed more than a few years ago?  Yet today 
lots of people use it.

> Tell you what, if you'd like to come over sometime and show our Report 
> Writers how to make Word stop crashing constantly, I'm sure they'd be 
> delighted...

Sure, post it here (plus any template files) minus any confidential 
text/images and I'm sure I won't be the only one willing to give it a look 
over.

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