Re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access



"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Now something must be truly going wrong at MS - and from various people,
many non-computer geeks, and Pete is hesitant, MS Vista is an arch
STINKER. Microsoft didn't start yesterday using OO and even though Vista
*might* have different design concepts from its immediate predecessor, it
seems to me they should have been able to refactor (salvage) a whole
slough of methods for re-use in Vista.

That was not the brief. They needed a new kernel. I don't personally use
Vista and I have no intention of doing so, BUT, it is definitely better now
than it was, and much of the fuss was over unavailable drivers for what
could be considered obscure hardware. Today, Vista supports around 3 million
devices, but people still complain it doesn't support their particular
device. Other problems were with tightened DRM and user access levels.
People are used to running their systems at admin level and expect to have
full priveleges. This is wide open if someone remotely gets onto the
machine. They are running as Admin and can do anything they like. People
SHOULD run applications at a User privelege level, but few of us do. Vista
made more fuss about this and thereby succeeded in alienating a large
protion of the user base. People say MS is insecure, but when they tighten
security, everyone hates that too... DRM was tightened in response to
pressure from the media giants like Sony who are sick of having their stuff
illegally copied on computers. As most people do this at some point, it was
another bone of contention. MS really had little choice,although better
deals have since been worked out.

It is actually possible to find people on the web now who LOVE Vista... that
was certianly not the case within a few months of its release. It is also
worth pointing aout that all senior MS executives were required to run it,
so they encountered very much the same problems as everybody else. Internal
memos have been leaked where senior MS managers just HATED it and demanded
something be done. Something has been done. Windows 7 will use much of the
core of Vista but with new additions and proper support for 64 bit. It
annoys me that I am writing this on a dual core 64 bit platform that is
being choked by 32 bit software. Windows 7 should remedy that.

It is currently fashionable to rag on Vista (although other opinions are
starting to creep onto the NET) but it is important to be up to date before
doing so. Otherwise it just sounds like tired old chestnuts and MS bashing.

Did you ever read any of the web articles about the attempted take-over of
Yahoo ? Anonymously, some of the Microsoft staff were absolutely
vitriolic, and close to slander if Balmer could get his hands on the
originators. They were in two schools of thought,

(a) Those who just thought Yahoo was a bad idea and didn't gel with the
Microsoft philosophy. There I think back to the department store group I
was Systems Manger for in UK who took over a family owned supermarket
group - it was a disaster.

(b) The second group were the ones who did most of the slagging,
"dishonest, crooks, useless..." and other adjectival compliments. They
were also very naive. They hoped that MS would buy out Yahoo so that they
could get jobs at Yahoo away from the pernicious university in Bellingham.
Dream on - did they think Balmer was going to give them carte blanche to
do their own thing.

No, I don't keep a watching brief on this stuff. The web being what it is,
I just tripped over the above messages.

Jimmy

Like all gossip, web gossip is questionable.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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