[dogscoff]

You seem to have misunderstood.

Windows is a crap OS. Not just from the point of view of the programmers and the purists, but for the average Users as well. Maybe you're happy with it, and that's great for you, but all it demonstrates is that MS has some outstanding propoganda going.

I fully understand and support the "I don't care about my plumbing" analogy, but the truth of the matter is, the plumbing in your system is awful and you don't complain becasue you don't know how good it could be.

Imagine if you had to flush your toilet six times to get it clean every time you used it. You'd complain, right? You'd get it fixed.

But what if everyone else in the world had the same system? What if six flushes was considered normal? You'd probably be happy enough with it, and so you wouldn't complain, because it wouldn't occur to you that something better was possible.

What's more, you'd be delighted when Bill Gates offered to sell you a five flush toilet.

That's the situation you're in now. Windows is a six- flush computer, and sometimes it still leaves crap behind that has to be removed manually. What's more the pipes make a funny noise, there's nasty smell coming from behind your washing machine, and a damp patch on the ceiling above the dining table. All your waste is stored in a big tank in the roof for 3 months before it gets piped away and half the water for your house is poured out into the street before you can use it.

The thing is, Microsoft have worked hard to ensure that this shoddy plumbing is universally accepted as the best that current technology can provide. People need to realise that better plumbing _is_ possible. Only when they do that, and start investing money in it, will we finally start to see an improvement.

DMM: Unix isn't all text commands these days you know - the unix boxes we have here at work all run HPUX mousey/ clickey/ window/ pointer type GUIs, which are far more smooth, stable and reliable than our PCs.

GeoSchmo - My Last post was an attak on you. Sorry if it cacme across like that.
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[This message has been edited by dogscoff (edited 08 August 2001).]