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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. P. who wrote (33606)	11/10/1999 9:09:00 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 74651

You assume I hate msft. You are a herd all by yourself. I could care less other than watching the dynamics as they play out. Go write some code if that will make you feel better.

To: J. P. who wrote (33606)	11/10/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: Bob Drzyzgula	Respond to of 74651

I really don't understand fervent Microsoft hating. Hatred is a bad thing in general, and I really hope that I never sink to "hating" something like Microsoft. I also use many Microsoft products by choice; Word drives me nuts with all it's assumptions about what I really want to do (the book Word Annoyances is an excellent resource for people like me -- it tells you how to shut off all the stupid stuff and turn it into a decent word processor), but Excel and Access just blow me away with what they can do. Access falls down when you try to use it as a shared-access, production database, but that isn't what it was designed to do and it is unfortunate that the people who complain about those problems in Access won't accept this fact. As I've said in previous posts, the thing that makes me angry about Microsoft's products is when those products have problems that exist only as a side effect of something MSFT has done to protect against some real or perceived threat. A good example is the difficulty in cloning Windows NT. Any customer who has to implement, say, 500 Windows NT desktops simply cannot afford to pay someone to sit at an NT console and hand-install each copy of the operating system. Yes, much of the install can be scripted but not all of it by any means. And yes, products such as Norton's Ghost exist but there are still problems with them. Microsoft makes a lot of excuses about this, but at the core the problems are fixable (the OS could better support dynamic reconfiguration -- Linux's ability to do this is beyond compare, so it can't be that hard :-) -- and MSFT could give their customers utilities to create new SIDs and to install NT boot loaders) but Microsoft refuses to do so. I think that what sets people off is that MSFT will persist in using such design features against an overwhelming negative reaction from their customer base. I think that those shared frustrations often form the basis for the "crowd behavior" that you see. Just IMHO. --Bob