For all you Microsoft bashers

bjay125 · 25th December 2000, 12:46

First of all, I myself am not a huge fan of M$, but...

(1) Windows 2000 is an *excellent* product. Stability up the wazoo while retaining very good compatibility with Win9x programs. I actually bought Windows 2000.
(2) Office is another *excellent* product. Need I say more - if you've used it extensively, as I have since 1994 - you already know this.
(3) Internet Explorer - yet another excellent product. Nothing matches it pure power vs. resource usage. I tried Netscape 6 and immediately uninstalled it when I saw it's resource usage. Not only memory but the processor time - it took up so many processor cycles just to display a standard web page that it actually caused Winamp to skip once in a while - a feat no other program has been able to accomplish on my machine.

And I must even praise the Win9x line. Not for me (a power user) but for the average Joe who knows little to nothing about computers. My mother does e-mail, surfs the net, scans in photos with the scanner, e-mails and prints them, *all* without knowing a directory from a hard drive. Pretty damn impressive for a system to be so user-friendly that a person with very little knowledge can get so much done. At work she even uses Office to create newsletters and calendars - using clip-art and everything. Yet you even mention the term "directory" or "folder" or "USB port", you may as well be talking to a wall. With all the bashing that goes on in here (any everywhere else) I felt that, given it's plusses and minuses, Windows is still the best and easiest to use PC platform. It's no wonder why it has become so dominant - cuz for every power user, like most of us in this forum, there exists many more people who don't know crap about their computer, yet are still able to use it productively.

For the record - I have 3 OS's on my computer - WinMe, Win2k, and I just installed Linux. I'm looking forward to learning Linux, and given my computer expertise, I'm sure I will have no problem. But I can say that given my limited exposure to Linux, that Windows is still far more friendlier, not to mention the software support, which far outweighs Linux. However, I am very happy to see another OS gaining popularity and support - maybe it'll make M$ work a little harder at providing stable, user-friendly software and OSs.

And for the record, I *hate* WMP7. Good thing is that Win2k came with 6.4, not 7, so I don't even have it installed. I think M$ should just stick to OSs and core programs (such as Office) and leave the rest to people who actually are capable of coding decent software (such as Nullsoft).

So waddaya think?

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25th December 2000, 12:46	#1
bjay125 Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 82	First of all, I myself am not a huge fan of M$, but... (1) Windows 2000 is an excellent product. Stability up the wazoo while retaining very good compatibility with Win9x programs. I actually bought Windows 2000. (2) Office is another excellent product. Need I say more - if you've used it extensively, as I have since 1994 - you already know this. (3) Internet Explorer - yet another excellent product. Nothing matches it pure power vs. resource usage. I tried Netscape 6 and immediately uninstalled it when I saw it's resource usage. Not only memory but the processor time - it took up so many processor cycles just to display a standard web page that it actually caused Winamp to skip once in a while - a feat no other program has been able to accomplish on my machine. And I must even praise the Win9x line. Not for me (a power user) but for the average Joe who knows little to nothing about computers. My mother does e-mail, surfs the net, scans in photos with the scanner, e-mails and prints them, all without knowing a directory from a hard drive. Pretty damn impressive for a system to be so user-friendly that a person with very little knowledge can get so much done. At work she even uses Office to create newsletters and calendars - using clip-art and everything. Yet you even mention the term "directory" or "folder" or "USB port", you may as well be talking to a wall. With all the bashing that goes on in here (any everywhere else) I felt that, given it's plusses and minuses, Windows is still the best and easiest to use PC platform. It's no wonder why it has become so dominant - cuz for every power user, like most of us in this forum, there exists many more people who don't know crap about their computer, yet are still able to use it productively. For the record - I have 3 OS's on my computer - WinMe, Win2k, and I just installed Linux. I'm looking forward to learning Linux, and given my computer expertise, I'm sure I will have no problem. But I can say that given my limited exposure to Linux, that Windows is still far more friendlier, not to mention the software support, which far outweighs Linux. However, I am very happy to see another OS gaining popularity and support - maybe it'll make M$ work a little harder at providing stable, user-friendly software and OSs. And for the record, I hate WMP7. Good thing is that Win2k came with 6.4, not 7, so I don't even have it installed. I think M$ should just stick to OSs and core programs (such as Office) and leave the rest to people who actually are capable of coding decent software (such as Nullsoft). So waddaya think?