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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (11859)	4/20/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: Randy Tidd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

> ... but Win95 is reasonable and I have few problems with the win95 > peer to peer networks in small offices. The biggest problem is > people fiddling around. Apple locks you out of those risky areas. > I have often wondered why MSFT did not do the same? There are two philosophies on how to make software user-friendly. One is to totally automate everything, to predict every possible thing the user might want to do, and give the user access to that with a few button presses. This approach is taken by Windoze and MacOS. Another approach is to have many layers of software that are fully accessible by command line, so if something on one level doesn't do the trick, the savvy user can go down to the next level and make it work. This is the approach taken by Unix. MacOS pulls off the first approach very well. Unix does the second appraoch very well. The problem with Windows is that it tries to do the first approach, but fails because the automated software doesn't work, is inconsistent, and reports lousy error messages. Thus the frustration people have (i.e. "plug and pray"). It's doubly frustrating because since the Windows authors think that their software is easy to use and friendly, they don't provide powerful command-line or other access to the guts of the system, so even savvy users are prevented from getting it to work. It's like telling someone to run a race but tying their legs together first. Randy