re challenge to microsoft supporters in article sundaram msuinfo sundaram egr msu edu divya sundaram writes jenk microsoft com jen kilmer writes much bs deleted for brevity again my point was that not all microsofties are here to sell readers on our products which would conflict with the no ads philosophy of usenet nor do we necessarily have access to info that others have it certainly smacks of that remember the poll that you quoted saying that you had seen a of users being satisfied with dos it was and actually another msdos team member posted it note that people not on the msdos team would not necessarily know about that or care to recall how unbiased the sample set was when i heard those numbers i wondered how they got them having worked in product support and knowing that the typical support caller has very little positive to say about the product i figured it wasn t from there so i wandered over to the marketing folks and asked and i was told it was from a survey of registered users and i posted that on the net when people asked where the figure came from that post sure looked like fud and coming from a microsoftie well it sure seemed like something was not on level hmm i figured if chuck posted the numbers why not include where they came from i also find it interesting that postitive info is fear uncertainty doubt advocacy is good but spreading fud to advocate your favorite os is very unethical especially when you have a vested interest in the success of that os i think you ve got me confused with someone else i don t pretend that msdos provides what all people need or that other oses including unix os don t provide useful and or necessary features i also don t push people to use msdos i even posted in comp os msdos misc that i suggest waiting before installing a new os esp if you have trouble support is always overloaded during release unless the sales are a total bomb i also get tired of people assuming that microsofties are like members of the borg that is because their actions seem to invite this opinion never seen more defensive people in my life i ain t saying some of us don t get defensive sometimes do you really think msdos gets any more respect within microsoft than outside it i just mean we all aren t cut out of the same dough with the same cookie cutter we don t all think alike yeah chuckst and i have some inside info on msdos doesn t mean that everyone else does seriously speaking it is a shame that ms techie employees get the heat for ms s actions most of which are perpetrated by the management and marketing i am sure that they are very talented etc i have not doubts about their abilities just about the ethics of their marketing practices jen include stdisclaimer jenk microsoft com msdos testing
