[Info-vax] OT: so, even Microsoft says IE6 is crap

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Paul Sture wrote:
> In article 
> <2abc0bbc-82ae-4e74-9759-a66d347f3f64 at 34g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>,
>  Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 18, 3:47 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> so, even Microsoft says IE6 is crap
>>>
>>> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/microsoft-wants-you-to-...
>>>
>>> NSR
>> Nothing new.  Microsoft thinks everything they create is incredibly
>> great, until they release the next thing they want you to buy, then
>> the old stuff is crap.  I remembered and located a quote from BG when
>> win95 was released (extra included for context):
>>
>> "The advertising that Apple's running is a very positive contributor
>> because it serves to raise the awareness of Windows 95 with Win 3.1
>> users," Gates said in an exclusive interview with MacWEEK. "I'm not
>> saying there's anything wrong with them. But they're good for us as
>> well. Apple says, 'Hey, Win 3.1 is crummy and it always was crummy.'
>> And we say, 'No, it just turned crummy. It was really great till
>> Thursday.' "
>>
>> Embedded corporate cultural attitude there.
> 
> They did similar when XP came out, claiming increased productivity for 
> users (aka more stable).
> 

Both W/2K and W/XP were more stable than their predecessors!  My W/XP 
desktop runs 24 and 7 and has for several years.  VMS it's not but it's 
an amazing improvement over W/98/2e.

I haven't tried Vista yet; there's no incentive.