Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alomex who wrote (32036)	1/28/2002 8:55:07 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213172

Actually MSFT's applications are not famous for their bugs, but for their ever erring attempts to anticipate and execute. The software is like a kid that wants to help without being asked. It is as though the programmers set up the default settings to their own style of work and left them there. Then they buried the change functions under arcanely worded, multi-layered menus and complex selection boxes where it takes a person 20 minutes to figure out how to change a software induced mistype and 10 seconds to just retype it. After you learn how to turn off the mistype generators, the software works pretty good. But, I'd never buy a Pee Cee just because the OS has a lock on most of the market, yet that's what keeps Bill in mad money because so many people do. The company is stumbling badly on the security issue however, and Gates is doing damage control. If the general public gets the idea that membership in the Windows clique is passé and no longer Rubenseque, their individual and collectivized computing objectives will change. And, Bill Gates knows it! Apple is making waves. The herd is more aware of this company now than ever before. It's hard to win over cows when they feel secure. Everytime the wranglers have to move the herd onto a new OS upgrade, or everytime a security flaw interrupts the feeders, they loose some. Some get spooked and some just get tired and look for something better. I feel sorry for the Mac herd though. At least the Windows herd HAS something better to move to. The Mac herd will just have to wait and trust that their company can keep the vision and technology feeding going... for ANOTHER 18 years. HerbVic