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How has the virus affected you directly?

lauriandres said:
IMHO that statement is again kind of fake news. I guess HP, Compaq, Digital, AST, Gateway etc had freedom to either accept MS conditions or not. I guess that with "yes" they also got MUCH better prices than ordinary tiny companies. Our tiny company was perfectly OK to sell selfassembled computers and was free to include either MS product license, OS/2 or some other operating system a la Linux. I do not remember the exact prices, but MS DOS 6.1 was in similar price than it was in USA at that time (about 70 USD?) and MS Windows 3.1 maybe 100 USD? Of course, we sold probably only about 200 computer per year; company was founded in 1991 and we sold our 1000th computer in the beginning of 1996.
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You keep believing what you want. No worries.
 
LogGrad98 said:
You keep believing what you want. No worries.
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Aren't you in several other threads stated that when stating something then it should be backed up with facts, not what somebody believes? I am just stating that MS did not force ALL the IT companies to dance the tune they wanted. A la only selling MS software, WP is better than Word etc etc. Yes, during the '91-'95 our company also used the WP as the main word processor, but all the coworkers saw, that with Word it is much easier to do the same tasks.
All the tools are available to create own software if you want and have the knowledge and resources.
 
lauriandres said:
As i have worked as an IT support person since '94 i would say that the we could also blame the other companies too, which produced inferior products and customers/IT persons who chose better product for their needs (although it is not a customer's responsibility to keep hardware or software manufacturer profitable). IMHO it is not MS fault, that Wordperfect, Netware 4.0, Netscape, Borland (Paradox and Quattro Pro) etc etc were not as good for the customers as MS products. My last Netware experience ended around 2003 when i upgraded a customer server from Netware 3.12 to Windows 2000 - i am pretty sure the customer is not missing Novell products at all. Although i was skeptic at the beginning when i switched from MS DOS based Pegasus e-mail client to Outlook-Exchange around '99 or 2000 i am not missing that software.
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As someone who started off by using WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and who used Netscape at some points, they were in no way inferior to the MicroSoft products individually. However, they never seemed to be as compatible with each other as Word/Excel/etc. were.
 
lauriandres said:
Aren't you in several other threads stated that when stating something then it should be backed up with facts, not what somebody believes? I am just stating that MS did not force ALL the IT companies to dance the tune they wanted. A la only selling MS software, WP is better than Word etc etc. Yes, during the '91-'95 our company also used the WP as the main word processor, but all the coworkers saw, that with Word it is much easier to do the same tasks.
All the tools are available to create own software if you want and have the knowledge and resources.
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The facts are in the fact that they were forced to break up the company due to illegal business practices. You can Google it and get page after page of evidence. Enjoy!
 
Man....y'all better start looking into buying portable defibrillators.

I hear Microsoft is coming out with one this year.
 
lauriandres said:
if that is not a fake news :) then i should go back to school again; when was full version of MS Word included with the Windows license? Win 95 included Wordpad and you were able to purchase MS Works which included a lite Word kind of program?
During the MSDOS period printer manufacturers had to anyway make drivers to different programs, because DOS did not included a unified layer for printing?
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****, I don't know. I know I bought WordPerfect back in the day but had MS Word on my PC (family PC that I monopolized). I didn't buy it, my dad didn't buy it, no one else in my house ever bought any software. Long time ago, so who ****ing knows? I do know that "reveal codes" was a life saving feature that was easy to use on WP but I never once was able to find it on MS Word.
 
Gameface said:
The virus has affected me directly by creating a situation where I'm talking about software I used in middle school and high school in the early 90s.
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Did you or your family had MSX, C64 or Amiga 500 before PC XT/AT became affordable/widespread?
During the soviet time i was little bit sad when watching Finnish TV ads about Amiga and Amiga games. We had to do basic :-) Basic and Pascal programming using SM4 (or CM4), DVK (another soviet computer) and on good days got first glimpse of Wordstar, Multiplan and dBase either on Yamaha MSX or Microbee. I was around 12-14 years old then and once a week had a chance to visit computer class at the university, where my uncle worked.
 
lauriandres said:
Did you or your family had MSX, C64 or Amiga 500 before PC XT/AT became affordable/widespread?
During the soviet time i was little bit sad when watching Finnish TV ads about Amiga and Amiga games. We had to do basic :) Basic and Pascal programming using SM4 (or CM4), DVK (another soviet computer) and on good days got first glimpse of Wordstar, Multiplan and dBase either on Yamaha MSX or Microbee. I was around 12-14 years old then and once a week had a chance to visit computer class at the university, where my uncle worked.
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In the early 80s my dad had a Commodore 64 and subscription to Omni magazine (at least I think that was the one, if not then Popular Science) and they had code on the last page or two that you could use to write your own program. I remember one that was like Pac-Man but with basic characters.
 
Wow! Check the estimates for your own state. Roughly 1 in 3 Americans have already been infected, or about 120 million. In my own state of RI, roughly 41% have been infected since it all started....

www.npr.org

Why The Pandemic Is 10 Times Worse Than You Think

Not everyone gets tested. A new model estimates how many infections are missed because of this and how many people are actively shedding the virus. The results lend urgency to the vaccine race.
www.npr.org www.npr.org
 
candrew said:
Received my first vaccine shot today - nice to at least feel like I'm back on the road to some semblance of normalcy.

Also, just in case - Bill Gates is our greatest national treasure and a god damned good looking man.
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How the heck did you get yours already? Were you in group 1A or whatever it was?
 
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