Comments on Confessions of a Concept Junkie: Microsoft Just Needs to Die

I work for Microsoft (intern). Not even my fellow ...

2008-07-05T00:05:00.000-04:00

I work for Microsoft (intern). Not even my fellow employees like internet explorer. A few are Vista fans (figures, our work boxes are powerhouses), but no IE fans.

And yes, for the doubters, IE is *that* bad.

At first I thought IE wasn't so bad. Hey, tabbed browsing, not too different. Then I tried managing bookmarks. Epic UI fail on every level: you can "cut" bookmarks but only "paste" them within a folder; no dividers; and worst of all, a drag operation gets cancelled if you don't drag to the thin line *between* two other bookmarks.

Does Microsoft need to die? No, I don't think so. Having only seen one group, I can't make statements about Microsoft as a whole. BUT: My team's work actually *is* innovative and will provide a very useful service in an industry where Microsoft is demonstrably *not* a monopoly.

The funny thing is that I've never heard Bill Gate...

2008-06-10T20:01:00.000-04:00

The funny thing is that I've never heard Bill Gates make a non-trivial prediction that actually came true, or even bore any relation to reality.

He completely missed the boat on the Internet back in the 90's, and even had to amend his book to correct for that incredible oversight. In 2000, Microsoft promised to take a month off and improve security, and things got worse and worse at least four more years. Gates promised some 4 or 5 years ago that he would eliminate spam in two years, and it's worse now than it ever was... he had absolutely no effect. I seem to recall that he claimed no one could multitask with less than a megabyte of RAM, even though the Amiga had already been doing it for years.

Now he's hyping the pen-based tablet aspect of Windows 7 being the hot-n-fancy feature, and I would bet big money it will either be dropped or ignored by time Windows 7 ships. Oh yeah, and in five years everyone will be foregoing the keyboard and surfing the Web with voice recognition.

It will take many, many years, but MS is in a death spiral.

I couldn't agree more. It's an excellently well wr...

2008-06-10T16:37:00.000-04:00

I couldn't agree more. It's an excellently well written article. The most annoying to me is that not only they have a monopoly (which is already unhealthy in itself), not only they obtained it through crooks techniques, but the worst is that they are NOT, and by far, a good product maker. Imposing their crap to 90% of the users.
They haven't truly innovated in 15 years, they keep following others, trying to catch up, pitifully cloning everything that is successful, and yet, enjoying their monopoly and playing Internet and software gurus...
Bill Gates: "In the next decade, the internet will be very different". No kidding.
It's like Walmart giving you advice on organic farming.

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2008-05-29T18:18:00.000-04:00

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http://157.254.235.130/public/RCR860_code_list.pdf

These are the sites for the Manual and the Codes list

You know, Jenny, I would have thought so, too, as ...

2008-04-23T11:38:00.000-04:00

You know, Jenny, I would have thought so, too, as I stated in the blog. But the fact that a web site can so thoroughly hijack the browser that you have to kill the whole app (and all your other tabs, etc), in order to regain control of it is totally unacceptable. While that's not a virus infection, per se, it is definitely a malware attack.

Again, in 5 years or so of using Firefox (and its predecessors) nothing even remotely like that has ever happened to me.

I realize "Anecdote" does not equal "Data", but I would never let my children use Internet Explorer after that (of course they use the same setup I use).

And I didn't even mention the huge speed difference. IE7 is easily two or three times slower than Firefox, based on my little bit of usage... and this is IE right out of the box, no add-ons or changes of any kind.

Microsoft literally offers nothing that can't be found better, cheaper and more advanced elsewhere. The only thing they have going for them is the vast amount of software written to run on Windows. And with WINE and other solutions, Windows is becoming more irrelevant every day.

Thanks for commenting! :-)

I use Firefox, it the best, but I dnt agree with y...

2008-04-23T03:14:00.000-04:00

I use Firefox, it the best, but I dnt agree with you,Internet Explorer is not that bad ...

Jenny