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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (9242)4/22/1998 7:38:00 AM
From: batskinner  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Otherwise, Windows it is. Quick poll here? How many posters are accessing this forum with a Windows-based browser? How many of you think you could fire up a UNIX box to do the same?

I've been using Sun boxes with Netscape (and many moons ago Mosaic)
for years. What's so difficult about loading a browser onto a
Unix box and "firing it up"? In fact, I like the fact that I can
cleanly and easily remove applications from Unix (e.g. when upgrading
Netscape) without leaving a trail of garbage strewn throughout the
system as happens with Windows. I find it simply incredible that an
OS as touted as Windows still doesn't have features as basic as
sym-links. And "shortcuts" are not the same thing.

On another note, I find it amazing how casually MSFT supporters
brush aside this latest Win98 demo snafu. The point has been made that
the only reason a bigger deal has not been made of this is that
people are used to having Windows crash. And don't feed me this
"it was a pre-release version" stuff. Anyone who has ever demo'd anything
knows that you try your hardest to make good and sure that the system
(whatever "system" you happen to be demo'ing) will do what you want.

I love B. Gates response to this where he says something like
we all depend on technology but sometimes it doesn't work as we
would like. That's fine for you Bill, but I'd actually prefer
that the banks, mortgage companies, brokers, hospitals, airlines,
etc. that I use have a system that actually does work reliably.
I guess I'm just picky and have unreasonable expectations though.
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