Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Mark McIntyre (markmcintyre_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:12:43 +0000

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:36:45 +0000 (UTC), in comp.programming ,
Richard Heathfield <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

>Seriously, if it (and we're talking mainly
>about Word here) doesn't work for me, either I'm using it wrong (which I
>doubt, since I hardly ask it to do anything out of the ordinary), or it's
>out to get me (which is a tempting conspiracy theory but an unconvincing
>one), or it's broken.

If "broken" includes "badly installed", "installed on unstable version
of windows", and "broken by subsequent user hackery", then I think
you've covered it. If "broken" means "broken by the developers in the
first place" then I think you're incorrect.

>That you don't have problems with it yourself is
>great for you, but unhelpful to me unless you can pinpoint exactly what it
>is that you {do|avoid doing|chant} to get it to work.

1) use a Proper Version of Windows, not one you bought in Hamleys
2) don't run as Admin
3) keep the system fully patched.
4) do use a machine with the right spec

Seriously, on W2K fully patched, Word has *never* crashed for me
except when one of my colleagues emailed me a damaged Word doc. And
I'm hardly at the pinnacle of technology here - untril recently my
main mch was a PIII 800 w/ 256Mb, and my other PC was a PII 200.

>In the meantime, in my opinion at least, it is broken software.

User Error. 

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