Ralf Hildebrandt ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:21:09 +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels
: <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
:
: >Writing viruses for Outlook.
:
: And alas, current events prove you right.
: BTW, how many viruses must arrive, before people will realize, that M$
: software is just not ready for the enterprise?

It'll take more than wedging M$ email servers or clients to convince
the PHBs that M$ software has reliability problems, in spite of Gates'
admission at COMDEX:

   http://money.cnn.com/2001/11/12/technology/gates_software/
   Gates admits software crashes too much - Nov. 12, 2001

   Microsoft focuses on basics
   November 12, 2001: 7:44 a.m. ET
   Bill Gates admits software crashes too much and is too hard to use.

  "NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Bill Gates issued a confession to the computer
   world this weekend, saying Microsoft's software crashes too often and
   is too hard to use, according to a published report Monday.

   The founder, chairman, and chief software architect of the world's
   largest maker of personal computer software said he has been focusing
   on the issue of reliability for the last three months and he is
   working on a company-wide memo to reinforce this concept, according to
   USA Today.

   "There are areas where Microsoft needs to improve," Gates was quoted
   as saying in an interview with the newspaper. "We're doing a little
   bit of a mea culpa on this."

   In addition to focusing on reliability, Gates said the computer
   industry will turn to so-called computer tablets, devices that are a
   cross between a laptop and a personal digital assistant (PDA). At his
   annual speech to the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, Gates
   unveiled tablet versions from Compaq Computer, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and
   Acer..."

It'll take a large-scale disaster with casualties and huge property losses,
caused by M$ software, before the heretics are believed; e.g. loss of
a nuclear carrier:

    http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no27/dod/2868-1.html
    Navy carrier to run Win 2000

Until that happens, most PHBs will keep wearing their (Redmond)rose-colored
glasses.

One glimmer of hope is M$ increasing the license costs, since money is
something most PHBs understand.


--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

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