Re: rolling dice




"Frederick Gotham" <fgothamNO@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Malcolm posted:

People who know a lot about computers often like to make jokes at the
expense of Bill Gates and his software company.
Don't let that fool you into thinking that these reflect their real
opinions about Microsoft.


No fooling required, it _does_ reflect my real opinion.

I use Microsoft software all the time, and it rarely crashes so I find it
quite useful. What I don't like, however, is the programming snippets you
find on MSDN, things like "ZeroMemory" which render non-portable, code
which
could otherwise be perfectly portable!

Most PC programs don't need to be ported to other platforms. It certainly
isn't in Microsoft's interests for them to be ported to other platforms.
If your real opinion is that Microsoft is incompetent, as opposed to making
a joke, then I'm afraid you don't know very much about the computer
industry.
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