On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 06:52:59 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following:
> > "'It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to > > stick > > with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO > > (total > > cost of ownership), our lack of a sexy vision, at times, and many other > > difficulties,' the e-mail said. 'Customers constantly evaluate other desktop > > platforms, (but) it would be so much work to move over that they hope we > > just > > improve Windows rather than force them to move.' > > So when ya installing XP Pro, Joe? Sad to see ya leave this forum, mate. > I'm sure the humourless bastards and bastardettes in the MS forums are > going to love ya... > (g) Puh-lease, listen, like you I have to deal with fscking XP a *lot* for work, and it's like driving an old, half dead Toyota (<G>). Must admit, I don't know much about the Office shit, but this one blew me away. This client calls me because all of a sudden, his Outlook 'mail client' (shudder) opens with the message that his messages and contacts are not accessible. He's seriously pissed. You know what the problem was? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296088 So, no warning, just a serious fuckup that could easily be avoided by *not putting every message and contact into one big stupid-ass file!* MS developers are a bunch of moronic crackheads, but hell, they make me money. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "...we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address
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