Gene, I think you're missing a small point here.
“…believe me when I say that IE & Nav have now have become almost idiot proof. Even so, I have a backup file of favorites. To bitch about loosing your bookmarks is really childish.”
The small point is that people who use computers to make a living need stuff that actually works—it's not just about some silly bookmarks. Here's a small example—the example, in itself, is small and insignificant but demonstrates the flaw in your thought.
I just did a project for a client last week and upon completion I needed to delete a 100mb of temp material that I put in a folder on the desktop. Windoze sez, "Sorry, can't delete this 'cuz it's shared." So, the idiot within me—remember, the guy for whom you assert MSFT has made Windoze idiot-proof—well, I figure I'll go into 'properties' and disable the sharing of that folder. Well, dummy me—'Properties' sez the folder isn't even being shared. So now what? Is it shared or not? Heck, you would think the system shouldn't give conflicting answers. Windoze is still a crap hack attempt at an OS and that 100mb would still be there on my client's desktop but a solution was reached—we shut down his network temporarily to clear whatever was confusing the system; anything we did with the client machine wasn't working. Hey—now there's a solution! Shut down a network to clear off a folder that mistakenly thinks it's being shared. Brilliant engineering.
Mind you, as I said, this is a small example, but I run into a dozens of similar examples all the time where Windoze just is plain idiotic. It matters to me because I actually need to be on a computer every hour of the day to make money. I don't just use it to send email and post inane statements on SI. I can't waste time fiddling with MSFT "idiot-proof" bloatware—I need to get stuff done.
Furthermore, as to “Ե.0 was almost there, 3.1 was it.” Yeah right. That's why so much effort was expended to make Win95 a Mac wannabe—and they still didn't get it right. Wanna take another stab at it? You do use this stuff every hour of every day to make a living I take it?
-MrB™ |
