Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!rutgers!att!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuhk!mhuxo!ulysses!thumper!pff From: pff@thumper.bellcore.com (Peter Ferris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually Message-ID: <1289@thumper.bellcore.com> Date: 17 Aug 88 14:45:41 GMT References: <7988@cup.portal.com> <5832@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <9713@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: pff@thumper.UUCP (Peter Ferris) Organization: Bellcore MRE Lines: 33 Merlyn, It's my understanding that Excel has been fixed so it no longer requires "the first MB of RAM". I think you're really throwing the baby out with the bathwater on this one. To say Microsoft is writes "crappy" software is a pretty hard statement. On what do you base such a statement? I want to see something other than "... Excel needs to be loaded in the first 1 meg of RAM to run (last I heard). Their free MacroMaker was evaluated as "not worth it" by many netters because it screws up. ". Listen to yourself! "... I heard", "...screws up". This is supposed to be a technical forum. I'd welcome hearing your FIRST HAND experience with Microsoft, not "a friend told me", or "I read this somewhere". Further, I'd like to know what Microsoft did or DIDN'T do to help you. I have found them to have one of the better product support groups in the industry. Not perfect. But very good. If you think you can do better, then have at it! Maybe you're Bill Gates' successor in the industry. Competition makes this country what it is. Merlyn, I don't want to dump on you, as an individual. I don't know you. I can appreciate a person wanting to collect user feedback before forking over hundreds for a "pig-in-a-poke" piece of software, but to come out of the woodwork and say "MICROSOFT TAKE SHORTCUTS" and begin character assasination on a MAJOR vendor of software really isn't too cool (or factual or...). Then again, Apple hasn't always perfectly documented every nuance of their work either... I, too, have my suspicions. Suffice it to repeat two funde- mental laws of computing: "Fallible men write fallible software..." (Are YOU Perfect?!) "If carpenters built house like programmers write software, the first wood-pecker that comes along would destroy civilization." Nothing personal, Merlyn... just can't let you squeak by on that blanket statement about Microsoft! Later... Pete Ferris pff@thumper.bellcore.com