[Info-vax] OT: Microsoft success

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <73mlkfF1041hnU1 at mid.individual.net>,
	Michael Unger <spam.to.unger at spamgourmet.com> writes:
> On 2009-04-03 13:21, "Bill Gunshannon" wrote:
> 
>> And bad programming is not patented feature of MicroSoft.  I have had the
>> on-board computer on my Chevy Silverado crash.  Luckily not at a time when
>> it put me in danger.  But it is interesting to watch everything just stop
>> and you have to wait a couple of minutes before things come back to life.
>> And, yes, everything is controlled by the on-board computer.
> 
> "Powered by Windows (im)mobile"??
> 

You guys are so blinded by your dislike of Microsoft you can't even read.
I specificly say above that my truck is a Chevy and not a Ford.  It is
not controled by Windows.  I have no idea what the underlying OS is (if
there is in fact any true OS rather than just a device control program)
but it is not Windows and it behaves just as bad as Ford's.  Which, by
the way, I have not heard of any real problems with.  Unlike BMW, who
has had some real bad publicity about computer failures and apparently
isn't running Windows either.

bill

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