The Sacred Cash Cow

garym — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:02:55 -0400

Of what ex-Microsoft technology manager Jeff Reifman laments about applications crashes, failed expectations and the steady stream of inconsistancies and disappointments, if even half of what he says is true, I truly do feel sorry for all those of you who've been lured into the trap of it ...

I remember eagerly looking forward to Outlook 2003, only to be disappointed by how complex, buggy, and unimproved it was. â€œThereâ€™s kind of an angst,â€ says Andrews, the Seattle Times columnist and author. â€œMicrosoft ought to matter to us. There ought to be more of an intellectual and emotional connection. There just isnâ€™t.â€

True, I walked away from Microsoft products in 1995, or at least started my walk; it took another 3 years to complete the detoxification and when '98 proved no real perk above the '95, away went that pesky second partition. I gave it lots of second-chances too, but every time I tried to do any real work -- whup there goes another afternoon spent.

So do I gather from Jeff's memoires here that in the ensuing 6 years things have only gone from bad to worse?

But in the first five minutes on my new Mac, I was surfing the Internet, sending e-mail, and ripping a CD. OS X has been a breath of badly needed fresh air ...

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