On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:10:48 -0600, "Swingman" wrote:


"Doug Miller" wrote in message

Since when has MickeySoft ever cared about standards?

When is the last time you had a problem finding a hardware driver that
actually worked, and who do you think drove the "standards" so that it is no
longer the monumental struggle it once was to get a peripheral to work with
different hardware and OS's?

How soon we forget ...
Boy I really wanted to avoid this stupid thread but this one is just
too much to stay out of it.

MS really drives standards huh? You mean like, for example,
technologies like Universal Serial Bus (USB) that they forced down the
throat of every PC mfr in late 1994 and 1995 (long before the hardware
was even tested and there was no software for it) and they couldn't
come up with useful drivers until 1998? Meanwhile, the BEST and still
the BEST implementation of USB came from Apple for the MAC and Apple
wasn't even part of the WinTel duopoly. USB power management STILL
doesn't work on Wintel boxes while iMacs have been able to wake up
from a USB mouse move since day one.

And how about networking. You could plug two or more Apple systems
together and they just worked years (maybe even a decade) before a
Windows box and you didn't have to worry about DHCP or DNS or network
driver levels or any other s**t.

These guys don't know about standards. They only know how to force
stuff on the consumer and if it's not quite ready, WTF, who cares?
They'll just end up selling another version of their OS that
supposedly fixes the s**t that wasn't working in the previous version
with no accountability.

takes a deep breath, looks around, and sheepishly climbs off his
soapbox...

TWS