RE: NT sales don't doesn't matter

Never forget:

        Bug =   Undocumented feature

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> From:         HAVEAJOB@aol.com[SMTP:HAVEAJOB@aol.com]
> Sent:         Wednesday, December 02, 1998 12:33 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: NT sales don't doesn't matter
> 
> In a message dated 12/2/98 3:12:01 PM Central Standard Time,
> eric.delong@pmsi-
> services.com writes:
> 
> <<   
>       Soapbox(*on) Rantmode(*engaged)
>       IMO, MS marketing has done a wonderful job of deflecting awareness 
>       of their product deficiencies. However, the only way that MS can 
>       keep this up is to not allow the masses of technically challenged, 
>       financially lucrative end users hear otherwise. Who else can get 
>       people to PAY to be beta users? Who else can sell an OS with over 
>       3,000 documented bugs, fix about 25% of the bugs and sell the 
>       upgrade as a "new OS". What ever happened to fixing the product 
>       that I already paid for? 
>       
>       As a programmer, I couldn't expect to keep a job if I told my 
>       employers "sure, my system has a lot of bugs, some of which may 
>       cause the computer to spontaneously lock up or reboot without any 
>       warning, causing unexpected downtime and loss of revenue. But soon, 
>       you can pay me for a new version with completely different set of 
>       bugs that will make my old garbage obsolete. " 
>       
>       eric.delong@pmsi-services.com >>
> 
> 
> Kind of reminds me of a former client that was a medium sized consulting
> group, since "taken over by new management".  In a bout of goodwill to
> their
> employees, they instituted a year-end bonus program.  Among the criteria
> was
> successfully documenting and fixing "bugs"in programming output they
> produced...the following year they experienced about a ten-fold increase.
> 
> 
> Duh!
> 
> 
> Dave Brown
> Search Professionals, Inc.
> 888-917-1112
> haveajob@aol.com
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