8 May
2000
8 May
'00
8:04 a.m.
And I've run Win95 for a year with no problems.
It wasn't until Microsoft
Office was installed on the machine did it lock up and I wasted two days
trying to reinstall Win95, from scratch, before giving up and going to Linux
so I could continue my job.
Humm, suggests somthing was wrong or you were trying to use the OEM
install.
Hardware didn't change. Just the addition of
Microsoft Office.
That pig...
Now, how much damage did the ILOVEYOU virus do? How
much will it cost to
fix the damage that ILOVEYOU virus did?
nothing. We were properly prepared and the key users are educated. We
did recive copies but they were deleted before they could be activated.
We assume there are worms/virus/trogans out ther and they can hurt us
so we are prepared.
Windows that precludes such from being done in other
systems, other than a
lack of economic insentive and the fear of bring the wrath of Microsoft down
Gee I thought that it was already being done with star office.
for Windows is
to be mandated by the courts to be made available to anyone
who wishes to write applications for Windows, MS is correct in demanding
that the code be released only to companies who, including all their
employees as individuals, be barred for a period of, say, ten years, from
participating in the production of any operating system which might be
used as a competitor to Microsoft's OS products, including the drivers,
utilities, or ancillary programs, e.g. a browser.
Why? Such draconian measures would be such that you might not get very
many companies (or programmers) willing to even consider such a deal. Personally, I feel that the two worst things to
happen to our industry
have been Unix and Microsoft. I won't go into why I think Unix is bad, but
Microsoft has definitely kept the industry back technically, if only with
entrenching the poor design of the IBM PC as a standard for nearly 20 years.
Hell, if this sets the industry back 20 years that'll be the best thing to
happen! Imagine, decent hardware! Software that actually works! Less
slavish reliance on computers! That's bad?
Well I agree. the PC is generally poor hardware. Good hardware has always
existed, and it was never cheap.
Another bad aspect of Microsoft is the proliferation
of file formats.
Microsoft Word 6 format is imcompatible with Microsoft Word 95 format is
imcompatible with Microsoft Word 98 format is imcompatible with Microsoft
Word 2000 format. Sure Microsoft MAY make a utility available for upgrading
the document but they don't make it easy and heaven forbid you find a cache
of documents seven years old in the backups that is in Word 6 format.
Yes, this is a major problem and while they claim to have support for
conversions they don't work well or in the case of WP->Word plain don't
work.
My solution was and still is Runoff, it provides what I need for test
files and it runs on everything I have (NS* DOS, CP/M-80, DOS, WIN, VMS,
RT11, RSTS, unix, linix).
Allison