[Info-vax] OT: Microsoft success

[Michael Unger]

On 2009-04-03 16:56, "Bill Gunshannon" wrote:

> 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.

I'm not interested very much in cars, so my knowledge of details is
rather limited.

>                                                                  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.

There were articles in the (local) newspaper(s) reporting that Microsoft
would be trying hard to push Windows towards "embedded", "real-time" and
"critical" applications. I don't think Windows is optimal for that job.

Michael

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