BS: America is like Microsoft

Subject: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 09:06 PM

Sometimes America seems so much like (an unregulated) Microsoft.

Good product.
Good workers.
Crazy, arogant marketing department.

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 09:08 PM

Microsoft, good product!?!

hahahahahah!!!

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 09:09 PM

And everybody's mad at them...

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Johnny in OKC
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 09:24 PM

I like Microsoft.
I like Microsoft products.
I like Microsoft people.
I like Bill Gates.

Love, Johnny in OKC

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 10:04 PM

I usd to think Gates & Co were the world's masters and persuading people that black was white and vice versa -- after all, if you counted up the cost in American working hours of debugging, reinstalling, re-producing valuable files and other huge and hidden costs of being a Microsoft customer, it probably would be onthe order of magnitude of Bill Gates' personal fortune. Howja like them apples?

But now I think the Bush team has the Redmond team beat hollow.

A

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 10:07 PM

And Les Barker agrees, so there!

A

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Peace
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 10:43 PM

Microsoft Works: The greatest oxymoron in the English language.

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 11:18 PM

...and don't you just want to SHOOT that stupid paper clip thingie/character?

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Homeless
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 11:24 PM

Kill the paperclip

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 11:27 PM

Oh, man... I thought you were giving me one of those sites where you can actually shoot something, like the one where you can shoot the dancing hamster.

(but thnx for the link anyway ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 11:53 PM

Yes, Microsoft has good products.

I find it quite interesting how many normally fair people unfairly judge its products. I have heard "MicroPuke" many times from people who nevertheless, continue to run Windows. And I find it interesting how, despite its good products and its product placement advantages, Microsoft insists on following unfair trading practices. There are many otherwise smart people out there who hate Microsoft. And Microsoft is just a software firm; America is much more influential and consequently liable to be hated much more viciously. I think...I'm not sure.

(As for reinstalling Windows, if you don't have a backup program for your computer system, no matter what operating system you're using, you're asking for trouble; all hard-drives die. Acronis makes the best for Windows. Not including a good backup system with Windows is one of the many ways Microsoft needlessly shoots itself in the foot.)

Also: it ain't hard to turn off the paperclip.
Get MyIE2 as a (free) shell for Internet Explorer.

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 11:53 AM

I didn't have any opinions about it until I married a computer software consultant. He thinks Bill Gates is the devil.

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: mack/misophist
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 12:03 PM

Gates is NOT the devil. Balmer is the devil. Gates is just his sidekick.

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 12:15 PM

"America is like Microsoft"

Yep, they both believe their way is the best way (or possibly the only way), and expect the world to follow.
This also will put all the profits, be it from software or oil, into their hands.

Nigel

Unfortunately Tony Blair seems to be in agreement for Britain!

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: Mark Clark
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 12:34 PM

Interesting analogy. I'd say it's the other way around; Microsoft is like America. If you do everything exactly their way and don't ask any questions you'll probably be adequately happy as long as you only want to do what they have in mind.

It isn't that America and Microsoft are against quality, there is quite a bit of that thrown in, it's just that control is the main thing. You can work on quality as long as you have control. Lose control and you may find yourself dancing to another's tune.

What Microsoft and America tend to overlook is that the world is full of wonderful tunes many of which are quite danceable.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: America is like Microsoft
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 08:52 PM

Microsoft is a huge operation with a far-reaching vision for a product that can make life immeasurably better for everyone, and it seems to work, in most programs, most of the time.
That's pretty much like America.

Microsoft regularly suffers errors which stuff up whatever you're doing and which "may cause information to be lost".
That's a bit like America too.

You can send a report to Microsoft, and maybe you do for a while, but then the errors keep coming and you realise that no-one's reading your messages so after a while you stop sending them.
You can send a message to Washington, and maybe you do for a while, but then the errors keep coming and you realise that no-one's reading your messages so after a while you stop sending them.

Microsoft sometimes suffers a Fatal Error.
God Bless America.

John