Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-27 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:20 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: > Apple doesn't respect its customers, no matter their levels of expertise. Perhaps so. But, what is important for Apple is not whether Apple respects its customers, but whether its customers, at least the new customers, respect Apple. The ex

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-26 Thread b_s-wilk
What's wrong with Apple? Steve Jobs should have retired a long time ago and taken his sadistic narrow micromanagement style with him. It is my thought that Apple wants to go with program installations on-line as opposed to having the user employ a downloaded installer because Apple has decided

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-26 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:47 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: > What's wrong with Apple? Steve Jobs should have retired a long time ago and > taken his sadistic narrow micromanagement style with him. It is my thought that Apple wants to go with program installations on-line as opposed to having the user em

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-26 Thread b_s-wilk
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: > >> These examples are the best reasons to NEVER buy software at an app >> store where it's automatically installed, overwriting the last version. >> The worst bugs are always in the automatic installs, and they're harder >> to clean up, too. >

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-25 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:49 AM, David K Watson wrote: > On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 AM, b_s-wilk  wrote: > >> These examples are the best reasons to NEVER buy software at an app >> store where it's automatically installed, overwriting the last version. >> The worst bugs are always in the automati

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-25 Thread David K Watson
On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: > These examples are the best reasons to NEVER buy software at an app > store where it's automatically installed, overwriting the last version. > The worst bugs are always in the automatic installs, and they're harder > to clean up, too. I recal

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-24 Thread b_s-wilk
On 08/12/2011 09:47 AM, gerald wrote: vista, firefox, tbird, big computer with lots of free space. once every couple weeks i get a tbird upgrade. seems even more agressive than MS improvements. i get to the computer in the morning, and it's there. a couple weeks ago, i got a sidebar calend

Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

2011-08-12 Thread Art Clemons
On 08/12/2011 09:47 AM, gerald wrote: > vista, firefox, tbird, big computer with lots of free space. > > once every couple weeks i get a tbird upgrade. seems even more > agressive than MS improvements. i get to the computer in the morning, > and it's there. a couple weeks ago, i got a sidebar c