In a message dated 5/2/04 11:55:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Mike, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> I don't see how Microsoft >>has done anything evil? or Haliburton for that matter, just examples.
Well there's always people who say this or that but I personally was there to see Bill Gates' greed and shoddy quality control of the products he promotes deprive people of their lives. At NIH I was there for the gear up of the Y2K issue and the huge installation of Windows NT 4.0 for our mostly Dell and Compaq PCs (The Macs were going through their own hell of System 7.5). My area of responsibility was all of the outpatient research areas and clinics in the Clinical Center and I was well "plugged in" with what was going on throughout much of NIH at the time. Anyway, I was there to see with my own eyes how much money had to be diverted to dealing with extrem bugs in NT including delightful lies told about how it was Y2K safe with Service Patch 3 and then 4 (God but they were both nightmares) and 5 and 6. SP 3 and 4 were the worst and would often completely scramble parts of the OS on Compaq machines rendering them unusable and sometimes unrecoverable. Essentially we were lied to when they sold us the original installs, I think it was at SP 2, claiming it would do much more than it really could and was much more crash proof and Y2K safe than it really was and then lied to with each and every new service pack. The total man hours added up to several million dollars that should have been spent on patient care and research. What blew me away is that we continued to purchase MORE of these deffective software products. It all went to perpetuating Bill Gates' bank account. For those who feed some line of BS about MS products have facilitated and advanced research, I say that's a crock. Nothing that the Windows units did at that time was any better or more helpful in the work environment than what the Macs were doing in that arena and the windows machines cost a significant amount more to keep running. In Mid 1999 I was hired on at the US Institute of Peace, perhaps the only all Mac US Gov. body still in existance and we spent not a single dime on Y2K pervention or failures. We were the only Fed. Gov agency that could claim that. I may agree with some people on this or that right wing or left wing political topic but on this I am firm, Gates' greed and poor quality control is a horrible thing that really shows me the overall nature of their business which is make money and maintain revinue stream. I have doubts as to Bill Gates' genuine public interest or honesty. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
