[LINK] How can Microsoft stop us hating them?
Adam Todd
link at todd.inoz.com
Fri Dec 14 11:21:24 AEDT 2007
At 08:19 AM 14/12/2007, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>Software that sucks: Apple mythology is that Macs don't crash.
>Bollocks. The number of times that various apps - not just MS - spin
>the beach ball at me before disappearing entirely is completely out of hand.
I agree, it can't be claimed that Apples don't crash. From the
Classic Days to the current MacBook Pro's I still have application
crashes - but of course instead of the BSOD we get a popup that says
"The application has unexpected ended. Restart, Cancel, Close"
I don't get a spinning ball too often, and usually when that happens
it's something to do with a network drive going flakey (mostly due to
wifi dropping out or the other laptops going into sleep mode)
A constant spinning ball in my experience is usually a hardware item
failing to respond. Unplug a USB drive or a Firewire burner and
things usually return to normal pretty fast.
>Since the latest OS update, the machine is perfectly capable of
>shutting its power down with no warning. As for Office on OSX ... ugh.
I don't have Leopard :) I'll stick with Tiger for the time being :)
Don't use Office on the Macs anyway. Might eventually install Open
Office. But I have antiquated PCs for that right now. Not even
using Parallels as yet because I just can't see the benefit of
switching between platforms when I use them side by side - one for
notes and information and the other to edit :)
>meters will suck. Already I am considering replacing a year-old
>washing machine because the software is so unbelievably buggy that
>it's a power-and-water hog.
Hehehe :) We don't have one of those any more. We've got one you
put a few items into, spin around about ten times and presto instantly clean!
>Microsoft can only partly 'stop me hating them' because ultimately,
>it's a software company, and software sucks.
I don't hate Microsoft, or the software. If anything I've learned
over years and years and years is - these are tools and when using a
hammer sometimes you do miss the nail, so take another swing and just
don't hit your thumb!
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