Calvin07 wrote:Jisses VDG take it easy it was a JOKE !!!
But IF u think Microsoft and Windows is the answer you haven't understood the question as they say.
Remember back in the days Bill G was in Sweden to launch and demonstrate the new and improved software were u now could do multitasking ,and other stuff that MAC had for years, with the name Win95.
He entered the stage and started talking and demonstrate some feature and 3 min into the show he got the blue screen of death infront of 12 000 people that like me thought jupp there he goes again, nothing new under the sun. Unfortunately for the ordinary man, there are no alternatives for Windows. So they can launch producst that after 3 months need a huge Service Pack and each week 8-30 uppgrades just to try to keep up with all the safty issues and other glitches they letting the customers find for them.
So if u can accept this without complaining why cant u give a single guy the same benefit ?? That was my whole point with my comment.
Interesting "Mac had been doing the same thing for years" and yet "there was no alternative for Windows". I don't see how those two statements can both be true. I certainly don't remember people being dragged at gunpoint into stores to buy PC's instead of Macs. Maybe it's just they weren't musicians and didn't want to be saddled with Mac's crappy/quirky applications?
If you will insist on using the Mac's opsys as a comparison you should at least acknowledge that MS also lack Apple's advantage of being able to design a bespoke opsys to suit whatever bits of hardware they happen to have laying about. Any idiot can build a PC - unfortunately many do
I hadn't forgotten any of the stuff you mention or some of the other things Billy G and his pals got up to. Slavishly copying things apps Lotus 123 to produce Excel on the basis that 123 was the "industry standard" and the user interface had to be maintained to prevent everyone having to re-learn spreadsheet packages every time they changed jobs, etc. Then just a couple of years later they were suing the ass off anyone producing a spreadsheet app (including Lotus) on the basis of "look and feel"... AND WINNING!
I could go on at some length in a similar vein. Like I said, I'm no fan.
In all honesty my reply wasn't meant to be taken that seriously either but I can't be the only one who's getting tired with hearing MS trotted out like it excuses poor performance on the part of anyone else. Two wrongs still don't make a right.
Oh and I'm pretty sure I never said I accepted anything without complaining.
I still believe my basic point is a valid one. It clearly is not beyond an individual to put a game through pre-release testing. Shark and others manage it all the time (and, what's more, I'm almost sure that's despite the fact they're using Windows-based apps)
