Reader response: Do you still trust Bill Gates?

Cnet ^ | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 | verdyp

[Izzy Dunne]

In case you didn't notice, it wasn't MS that I was bashing.

[Izzy Dunne]

as a computer technican i work with browser related problems everyday. microsoft is on top because they produce a superior product.

And I'm supposed to believe someone who can't even find the shift key?

[sticker]

If I misinterpreted your post I apologize

[ShadowAce]

[N3WBI3]

as a computer technican i work with browser related problems everyday. microsoft is on top because they produce a superior product. it is "market forces at work". persons having problems with internet explorer do so because of a lack of knowledge. it is equal to blaming your car because you drive into a telephone pole. i tried firefox and was not impressed.

Yes Microsoft is on top because the produced a better product, namely office. They used office to leverage the desktop with an average (at best) operating system. They have used the operating system to push (in no particular order) a crap database, a crap browser, and a crap web server. Other than office MS has done nothing better than anyone else other than business decisions (and I dont fault them for that). Sometimes a better product loses because of poor management decisions not because another product is better.

Your analogy is flawed, ms has such a poorly designed operating system (car) that something when something breaks the radio (browser) it can bring down your car.

[JoJo Gunn]

That's a perty picture, but it's very misleading.

What one man can make, another man can break.

[processing please hold]

Is Safari and firefox free?

[Richard Kimball]

Oui.

[processing please hold]

I have no problems with XP.

[processing please hold]

Thanks.

If I were having problems with XP I would consider using it.

My motto is: 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.

I'll bookmark this. (just in case) :-)

[Tribune7]

From the little I've been using it, it seems like they got it right.

I still don't trust Gates, though, and I'm rooting for Linux to get quasi-established just to keep a check on him (and Jobs, who is also not someone to trust)

And Firefox rocks.

[pageonetoo]

Safari came with my OSX.mac, and firefox is available for download...

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[pageonetoo]

What one man can make, another man can break.

I guess you prefer Windows...

[Studebaker Hawk]

Never had; Never will.

[JoJo Gunn]

Far from it, as you'd find if you checked my posting history.

I'm simply pointing out that your being so brickwall safe is a myth.

But you deep down really knew that, right?

[pageonetoo]

But you deep down really knew that, right?

I have no idea what you are talking about...

[JoJo Gunn]

No, I suppose you don't.

[HAL9000]

as a computer technican i work with browser related problems everyday. microsoft is on top because they produce a superior product. it is "market forces at work".

Baloney. Market share is not indicative of quality. According to your logic, Dan Rather (7.3 million viewers) is superior to Shepard Smith (5.6 million viewers).

persons having problems with internet explorer do so because of a lack of knowledge. it is equal to blaming your car because you drive into a telephone pole. i tried firefox and was not impressed.

This is Microsoft's typical 'piss-on-the-customer' attitude - the user is always wrong. Apparently, Mac users are superior drivers because they never "drive into a telephone pole" like Windows users.

[knews_hound]

BTTT

[Sam Cree]

Gates' praise for communism has me kind of freaked, so I'm thinking of getting a MAC as next computer - they are only liberals or socialists or something. OTOH, I'll want to run MS Office on it, which is still Gates.

For the time being, though, my computer with windows 98 is doing just fine.