Microsoft, ROTFL(Their Collective)AO!

With the problems encountered (see here and here) by Apple users with the upgrades to Snow Leopard, it must be really satisfying to be a programmer at Microsoft. After all the flack the Microsoft programmers and designers get, always hearing how Apple computers ‘simply work’, it must feel like a moment they wish to have recorded, and then savored, all those times when things aren’t going so well.

For Apple, it’s time to have Steve Jobs get his legs and feet back in shape, to kick some major butt over these screw ups. While Microsoft can always state, somewhat correctly, that it is not possible to replicate all the combinations of hardware and software that gets stuffed into those boxes we call personal computers, Apple has no such cloth to cling to.

Apple has a very small number of possible combinations of hardware, over a very few models, now made smaller by the fact that Snow Leopard has left Power Processors fully behind, and completely embraces the Intel processor paradigm. The software is a large collection, but frankly minuscule, compared to all that will run on Microsoft operating systems.

What does this show?

1) The loss of Steve Jobs for the time of his illness has had a [perceived] ‘while the cat’s away, the mice will play - and not get business done’ air.
2) No team (Apple, Microsoft, or any other) gets it completely right every time, so the complainers, and worriers, and snivelers should get on with what little lives they have, and let Apple have a time to fix things.
3) If Apple can screw up with such a small number of possible scenarios, we should, as a matter of fairness, send a huge “Thanks so very much!” to Microsoft, for getting it right for much of the time. That’s while doing a [religious or non-religious] silent moment of reflection, as we await the release of Windows 7, because whatever they say, the press is, to some extent, paid to make the early adoption sound easy and painless. (Those who feel the need to face toward Redmond and genuflect may do so now.)

Amen.

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hopefully, these won’t be needed as add-ons to Windows 7

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