Roman Black wrote:
> If I own a perfectly functional 10 year old hammer
> why the f%^$ should I be forced to upgrade (ie pay
> money) to buy the latest hammer every 2 years just
> so microsoft can get constantly richer at my expense?

Hi Roman,

first, Happy New Year,

second, are you using a granite sharpen hammer made by some nedherthal
figure 20 thousand years ago, or a model that suffered hundreds of updates,
including the nail extraction head unit with rubber handle and such? The
point is a hammer really does not need any improvements, something that
even a computer and its software will not need either in the year 3400, I
guess, right?  I am afraid that I saw last week at Home Depot a new hammer
using polycarbonate and porous uretane at the handle, it does not transfer
the hammering shock to your hand and arm, avoiding damages to the muscles.
If you are using a regular wood handle hammer, you need to upgrade to the
new model... see?

:)

I don't like William Gates either, but we need to understand and clap its
marketing capacity to being able to sell what he sells and in the speed he
sells, not even talking about the way he uses to convince even you to
upgrade your system every 2 years.  Lotus 123 was much better than Excell
and even so he found a way to take the first out of the market, WordPerfect
was much better than Word (for the time) and the same happened. Even with
more than 50% of piracy he was always able to keep going and be rich. Its
only frustration was never being able to get CorelDraw down, since he was
never able to produce something technical as an EDA software. This, I
guess, was always pointed by his lawyers as what could bring MS down.
Nobody sues MS because he needed to restart the letter again at the crashed
Word, but a multi-million circuit board design crashing, requiring 10 days
of extra work, could generate a nice and fat law suit. He simply doesn't
want that, because he knows his company and what it produces.

If your new car breaks down, the manufacturer doesn't say you need to buy
the next year version that will have all the issues fixed, right?  they
have responsibility about it.

Recently bouth 2 E-Machines, software fully installed.  Win-XP and all.
Word keeps messing around with the docs names, it is not rare open a file,
"saving-as" as a NEW name, at the end, when you "save" the file, it simply
writes over the previous name... funny? nice job?  It happens often, in
both machines we bought, to avoid problems, whenever we want to change a
letter or something, we "save-as" and MUST verify if the file under edit
was really changed name...  Thanks Bill - perhaps you could spend 100k/year
more to pay a some "professional user" to test your softwares before you
release it.

Wagner

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