Re: Off Topic MS nonsense [was: Re: Boycott Microsoft Website]

From: "Chris Lomont" <clomont@cc.omni.purdue.edu>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Brad Proctor <fredlie@sprynet.com> wrote in article
<333ACC68.DB9@sprynet.com>...
>
> Microsoft just plain sucks! regardless of whether or not they have a
> monopoly.  Their programs are filled with bugs, slow as dirt, and don't
> even do what they are suppost to!
>

Except many professional programmers (people who make a living programming)

realize MS has a big market, and so develop for windows in order to sell a
product.
I know of no one willing to sink a million dollars into a development
project for Linux,
for instance. Why, do you think, do most game companies make a DOS (and now

Win95) product instead of, say, OS/2 first? Why do most big game houses use

Visual C++, Win95/NT, etc?? Because they are good, VC++ 5.0 makes
very fast code, supports lots of the C++ standard, etc.

This is rec.games.programmer, not opinions.mine.factless. Most people here
want to
program games, and I suppose many of those like selling games. Thus they
should
learn to develop for an actual market with modern tools/methods.

Please list a company that makes a wider range of software that is
consistently more
bug-free, faster, and do what they are supposed to. Notice that I said a
wider range
of software. MS may not have the best in every category, but I see no one
with such
a wide line of compatible software.

Chris Lomont

P.S. I am not a MS supporter, but I think the hate-MS crowd just wants to
complain to
little effect.

References

Re: Off Topic MS nonsense [was: Re: Boycott Microsoft Website]
springer@eden.com (David Springer)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Off Topic MS nonsense [was: Re: Boycott Microsoft Website]
Brad Proctor <fredlie@sprynet.com>
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Boycott Microsoft Website
Jack Teh <jteh@usthk.ust.hk>
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
Chris Lomont <clomont@omni.cc.purdue.edu>
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Off Topic MS nonsense [was: Re: Boycott Microsoft Website]
gary@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gary Stewart)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000