>No one said anything about coercion and fear. That smacks of >demonizing MSFT. Which is unnecessary. I can sort of agree >that VISTA has been a slow, fascinating train wreck.
No I'm not demonizing MS. This has nothing to do with MS directly, except their acknowledgement of it in their most recent advertising campaign. >Now that is completely unsubstantiated horseshit. People buy PCs >that are cheap and available. If they are savvy enough to have a >mission in mind, and most aren't, they'll get (or build) a machine that >suits the mission. Their self-esteem has nothing to do with it. I have met many people over the years who are positively terrified at the thought of not conforming. They have lectured me that Windows is the accepted standard and standards are always to be obeyed. The lecturer usually had a terrified look. Afraid of I know not what. I'm also demonizing the MS minions: so-called IT professionals who coerce their professional staff with all the threats I cited previously. I know people who have smuggled a Mac laptop into work and were sent home when caught. I know design departments who came in on a Monday morning to find that all their Macs had been removed over the weekend. Don't tell me that there are not coercive, nasty IT demons out there. The new MS ad includes a NASA engineer. This is an especially a bitter pill because NASA was a Mac shop. They got a nutty new IT chief and he started to cart out the Macs. It got very ugly. So ugly that the NASA IG was brought in to look at his misconduct. If you haven't seen it, all I can say is that you need to get out of the office more. Remember that I'm a roving consultant. I see many different organizations and talk to many different kinds of people within those organizations. This is what I encounter. Heck they even got Al Gore to give up his Macintosh. You have to be pretty coercive to get a VP of the USA to capitulate. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
