To MS Managment

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This was before interpreters and punch machines interpreted!!
I may be a little older than you.
 
your one concern are
very important to a
multi billion dollar
company and we can
be assured they will
file it in the bin.

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incidentally which computer
companies have you
seen come and go over
the past 40 years?

are you referring to the
likes of sinclair, commodore
and atari?

if so, how can you compare
the few above to microsoft
or the maker of Dos, i.e. IBM?
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Sorry; you're not older. Interpreters and printing keypunches were available
LONG before the '60's.
Ever hear of the 552 interpreter or the 026 keypunch?
 
to go back further, in the 60's punch cards didn't even
have printing on the top, you had to read the holes.
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Sorry, but that's not at all correct. Printing on the top goes back at
least to the early 60s (although not all keypunch machines had that
facility). I started programming in 1962. All my programs were punched
into 80-column cards, and those cards were *always* punched by a
keypunch that printed what was punched.
 
To MS Management:

I've seen a lot of computer companies come and go over the last 40 years.

From my perspective MS has forgotten that the consumer who purchases its
products is what keeps it in business.

While I respect MS's right to protect its copyright, as a consumer of your
product
since DOS 1.1, I want certain things:

1) An OS that works 99.99999999% of the time;
2) No extra services cluttering up my OS which I have no idea what they do,
    never use, and which open up potential vulnerabilities in the OS
   (anything that can remotely manipulate my system for example);
3) Not having the OS periodically tell me this or that is turned off;
4) A manual or some mechanism that comes with the OS that explains in detail
   what all the various checkbox choices mean and the reason I need or don't
need them.
5) The ability to clone the entire hard disk so in case of that .0000001%,
   I can get back up and working in the shortest period of time.
6) A master list of all identified problems, or potential problems, with the
OS,
   in an easy format and a place that doesn't continually change, so I don't
have
   to spend countless hour searching the web, MSDN, or whatever.

This weekend was the second time (1st was in January 2009) that my ability
to
clone my hard drive failed after downloading the latest Security Updates and
Authentication.
My previous weeks #1 backup clones perfectly to my #2 backup, so MS has done
something again.
THE INABILITY TO EASILY CLONE MY DRIVE  IS A MAJOR PROBLEM!!

So my recommendation is to take a new look at your business plan
- for my patience is not unlimited -
and as I'm sure you are aware, there are other options.

I hope this is of benefit.
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You are having disk cloning problem ans blame MS? Give me a break!!
I recently did several disk cloning "sessions" in order to work on
fixing a extremely "corrupted" XP Pro SP3 boot up process, which
resulted in svchost pop-up errors at boot. One complete month's worth
of diagnosing to discover my Norton Internet Security 2009 "standard"
install has been damaged, by Symantec's online support agent by the
way. During this time, I did 10 disk clones (Acronis True Image and
Symantec Ghost) saved my files, especially important for the Canadian
tax time (end April 30.) So, I would "blame" the software "we"
continually install that would interfere with Windows normal functions
and other system tools.

It is very easy to blame Microsoft! We "all " like to do that since
it is very easy to blame the "base" operating system without looking
for the exact cause.
 
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