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Windows is dead, -- Windows 2000 The Final Nail In Its Coffin, Says Columnist
Thursday, November 18, 1999
By Applelinks Contributing Editor Charles W. Moore
“The Windows platform is dead, and Windows 2000 is going to be the final nail in
the coffin,” states Eric “Zoltan” DeStefano in his latest “Mac User For a Month”
column on Low End Mac.
DeStefano maintains that Microsoft has tried so hard to make Windows 2000
make your life easier, that it has succeeded only in complicationg things. For
example, he writes:
“Instead of changing a command line only option to a GUI option, Microsoft just
left most of the options to the OS’s discretion. Either that, or they hid it so I have
to go hunting in the registry to find it for the next few weeks.”
“I don’t want my OS making decisions for me,” says DeStefano, echoing my personal
complaint about all Microsoft applications -- not just their operating systems. One
onf the things I like most about the MacOS is that it lets me do things MY WAY,
not how it “thinks” they should be done, and often one has three or four built-in
choices of modality in performing a particular task.
It should be noted that Eric DeStefano is not an exclusive Mac partisan. In fact,
he notes that his computing experience has been mainly focused on the Windows
platform, which he says he is “starting to dislike... more and more with each passing
day.”
DeStefano doesn’t apportion all or even most of the blame for this on Microsoft,
but rather “on the media, the computer schools, and a total lack of ingenuity among
upcoming computer professionals.”
“The computer schools are teaching people nothing but Windows, he says, “and
they are not even showing them how to troubleshoot a real problem.”
“The PC industry has made me sick and ashamed to be a part of such a class,” says
DeStefano, “...The Macintosh offers raw power with an easy to use interface. I am
losing my faith in Microsoft more and more every day.”
“The release of Windows 2000 will be great,” he says, “great for Apple when
everyone realizes that the Windows platform just doesn’t work anymore.”
You can read Eric’s column here:
http://lowendmac.com/meta/991118.shtml
Charles W. Moore
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