Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you repeat a lie a lot, people will eventualy belive it. I think it 
was Adolf who wrote that before WWW II.
Bill applies the principle.

The "user-friendliness" of microsoft applications is a clear example of 
a lie that fooled lots of people, as you can prove it by exposing a 
"fresh" user to a windows machine, as often happens in an undeveloped 
country.

In the states, most people had already learn (hard way) how to use 
windows, and now it is easy for them, the people that don't know how to 
use windows, have already heard so many times that it is intuitive that 
they are afraid to be taken by an idiot if they confess not to be able 
to use the computer.
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Booth Martin wrote:

> What Microsoft researches, and does very well, is to study their users and
> make the applications user-friendly.  They respond better than most
> companies to user actions.  MS studies how people use their products, and
> gears their designs to be more intuitive.  MS is one of the first companies
> to make products that don't need a manual in order for a user to be able to
> use the product.
>
> This is not innovation, like inventing hardware, but it is important, and MS
> does it better than anyone.
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> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: 10/07/05 09:48:33
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Trend towards platform specific languages
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> Jon,
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> Not that I'm disagreeing with you about your feelings toward Microsoft,
> but I don't know if I would go as far as saying that everything they did
> was copied or stolen.  They have done plenty of research and development.
> Surely you would count some of these as innovations:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/am6x8
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>
> Mike
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> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/07/2005 09:16:47 AM:
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> > OK Steve - I can't resist.  Name a Microsoft innovation.  Apart from Bob
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