Virus Alert !!!

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:23 AM Subject: Re: Virus Alert !!! My biggest hate thing against Microsoft is not that the software has bugs, but that they want the end users to pay them for fixing it. "$25 per problem, can I have your credit card number please" when you call support. (I won't. Ever. I don't even *have* a credit card, nor does the school AFAIK) I find the concept of selling something with faults, this is common enough in software (I won't hold this as a Microsoft only flaw) but that they have the unmitigated gall to CHARGE the people they sold the product to in the first place, for ms to repair what's broken. This is like buying a fridge, taking it home, and having the light globe continually blow, calling the manufacturer, and being told that "This is a common problem, we charge $25 for solutions, can I have your credit card number please?" Yeah, right. Though perhaps Windows has more bugs than it should, it's global popularity means they are certainly noticed more. I *know* Windows and some of it's apps are broken in many places, and has memory leaks (amongst other things). If you leave a windows box with Outlook Express open over a weekend, it will be slow as an XT on Monday morning, until you get sick of it and reboot, or it locks up and you have to reboot anyway. Done this by accident a couple of times, obviously not a good procedure with an MS based box, but it STILL SHOULDN'T DO IT. VMS systems (with or without Decwindows) can have up times measurable in years without stuff eating all available system resources. A respectable O/S should not permit this to occur. What I *like* about windows and it's companion apps like Office, Outlook Express (not forgeting it's virus vulnerabilities though) is the user interface. It's a relatively easy to use system, for some very complex and powerful apps, (word has features most of us never use or need). It's fair to say if Windows worked as well as the interface looks, Bill would be God, and everyone will be happy. I guess that's it's biggest fault, it doesn't work as well as it looks like it should. My 0.02c worth. Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Mark's College Port Pirie, South Australia geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au ICQ: 1970476 If there's