Lame Users - OJB

Microsoft software completely stable? Do you actually use it? As an IT support person in an organisation with thousands of users I can assure you MS software causes more problems than all the rest combined! But I agree that MS bashing without using the product is a bit unfair. OTOH it is the associated tricks (breaking standards, sending info to MS) which are the main problem here.

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Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 05:46 PM PST

Not so Lame Users - rspress2005_dotmac

I am a Microsoft Certified System Engineer and I think that Microsoft deserves a little bashing now and then. It is nice that they are including something that will let their content work on other platforms. Many of their content creation tools will make content that can only be viewed on a Windows machine running Internet Exploorer. One of the biggest uses of this was a complaint form on the Microsoft site for people using platforms other than Windows to complain about the Department of Justice rulings and how they were complying. For a long time you could only access the page using IE under WIndows.
I consider Micrsoft program as bug-free as most software out there, hardly bulletproof but mostly stable. I do find remote desktop nice for running windows programs on a Mac from a Windows server but the program is so old now and its age is showing rather badly.

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Sunday, February 11 2007 @ 06:46 AM PST

Lame Users - Gennx30

I had a Real Estate friend who could not access the MLS on the Web.
It would work only with MSIE5/6-nothing else.
She bought an Intel Mac, and at first tried PARALELLS-which meant she had to get hold of a copy of XP-which meant spending money, and then having a bunch of useless junk on her computer taking up a lot of space.
Then she discovered CROSSOVER, at 30Mb, so she wiped Parallels and XP off her Macbook, and Bingo! suddenly had a few Gb of extra space.
Not chopped liver.
She then installed MSIE 6 and it works fine.
Apparently CO are working to make many MS apps work smoothly on a Mac-not as emulation but natively.
And she only had to use about 50 Mb of her drive
And I think she is immune to MS virues.

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Saturday, May 05 2007 @ 12:41 PM PDT