Re: Deadly Error - Again

Buck,

Not to defend Micro$oft, but to be fair to PC software creators: When was the last time any of us installed OS/400 (or whatever it's called this week) on a production machine before any cumes are out? What about application packages for our box? And, as software developers, how often do we produce complex applications that work flawlessly in production and never need fixes? How often have we had some user do something that we had already told him was 'currently unsupported', or words to that effect, and had him complain when it didn't work smoothly? Be honest, now!

Again, I'm not defending M$, IBM, or anyone else, but I think we should try not to be hypocritical.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries

----- Original Message ----- From: "Buck" <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Deadly Error - Again

It's probably a good thing they didn't release it in its current state
(technology preview) to us standard users, since then we'd be beta testing
the product for IBM, and itching & moaning about the bugs and that we'd
become IBM's beta testers (and mumbling under our breath that IBM/Rational
is taking the M$ approach to product development).

Respectfully, the difference is that Microsoft released Vista as
'complete' whereas IBM have been very clearly calling the new Screen
Designer a technology preview.

Sadly, I think that anyone who uses PC software has become accustomed to
x.0 releases being somewhat buggy, and only x.1 or x.2 being decent.
This seems to go for open source as well as commercial stuff.
--buck