PC Quality

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My professional software experience predates Microsoft.
It is far broader than just Windows and related software.
After viewing some of these posts, it still amazes me just
what standard of quality people are prepared to accept
when it comes to PC based systems.

It would appear those who reasonably expect better quality
are more likely as not to be derided and demeaned by
supports of Microsoft. Most often the Microsoft
supporters use reasons that do not stand up to close
scrutiny.

If ones car or video recorder behaved in the way that some
PC software does then I doubt those Microsoft supports
would take the same view. They would be demanding it be
put right and in an acceptable integrated way not with
inelegant add-ons.

Software companies will have little incentive to improve
whilst its supporters lower the reasonable expectations of
users or deter disagreeable comments. Supporters may care
to reflect on the possibility of the competitors taking
advantage of a weakness caused by partial comments.

Those too keen to post ought to run limited user accounts
on Windows XP with fast user switching and NTFS file
structure. You may be very surprised! Anyway let
Microsoft speak for itself.
 
And you only noticed that in the PC INDUSTRY???

Take a look around....

People want things NOW and they are sometimes willing to accept a
non-functioning item just to act like they have it. Look at the car
antennas people put on their cars attached to nothing just for show.

It reminds me of when I was in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. We
hadn't eaten real food for two weeks, just MREs. The military flew in
steaks and lobster for our Christmas dinner and we were standing in line for
the steaks. If you wanted it cooked past rare you were not going to get one
because someone behind you was always yelling out, "I'll take mine rare!"
and they would get the next steak off the grill and give it to them.

Bottom line, people who DEMAND perfection build it themselves. The
consumer/commercial public is never going to wait long enough for perfect or
anything like.

Example: Commodore Amiga - more colors than Apple MAC, faster than Apple
MAC, true multitasking in 256KB, not MB, of RAM. Where is it now? Who
could wait?

Welcome to the planet!
 
First of this is not a soap box.. so got off of it..

Second this is a BETA product. Read the EULA, if you dont
like the way the product preforms, uninstall it, and dont
use it.

What I dont like, is when people try and say how much they
dislike MS and yet they are here on a community MS
website.. go figure...
 
WELL SAID!
-----Original Message-----
And you only noticed that in the PC INDUSTRY???

Take a look around....

People want things NOW and they are sometimes willing to accept a
non-functioning item just to act like they have it. Look at the car
antennas people put on their cars attached to nothing just for show.

It reminds me of when I was in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. We
hadn't eaten real food for two weeks, just MREs. The military flew in
steaks and lobster for our Christmas dinner and we were standing in line for
the steaks. If you wanted it cooked past rare you were not going to get one
because someone behind you was always yelling out, "I'll take mine rare!"
and they would get the next steak off the grill and give it to them.

Bottom line, people who DEMAND perfection build it themselves. The
consumer/commercial public is never going to wait long enough for perfect or
anything like.

Example: Commodore Amiga - more colors than Apple MAC, faster than Apple
MAC, true multitasking in 256KB, not MB, of RAM. Where is it now? Who
could wait?

Welcome to the planet!







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These are public forums, in which anyone can (and does!) speak their piece.
The only folks here in a professional way are the Microsoft staff identified
with the [MSFT] tags. All the rest of us are offering opinions with varying
degrees of bias and subjectivity behind them.

There's always some degree of blaming the victim in technical forums in my
experience, and some degree of defensiveness about the vendor--even a
gorilla type vendor like Microsoft.

I see very few posts here crowing about the perfection evident in the beta
product though.

I don't respond to the issues about limited users, generally, because I
haven't taken the time to be able to describe accurately what does and does
not work in that situation, and my understanding is that Microsoft is aware
of this situation, and it will either be documented or changed--so I haven't
felt it was important to explore myself.

As far as I'm concerned, the product is broken with regard to limited users,
at the current time.

I don't know whether Microsoft will speak to this or not--the weekend isn't
the best time to post and expect a response from them.
 
Can we all just work together in Unison to battle the evils of Internet
known as Spyware? Yes, you should be free to make your own judgements about
Microsoft and why they doing this. But what all comes down to is protecting
our PC's so lets use this excellent product so far, find any flaws, submit
feedback and make the product even better!

Andre
 
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