(rant) why microsoft is not easy to use

[MaTt]

actually if i didn't have a pathetic computer, i'd be using linux right now,
instead of fighting with a stupid floppy drive that doesn't work, all
because of (not for sure but) windows 98 screwed edition lol
and yes the screen review choices (soooooooo many that we have) NOT  I'm not
bashing jfw but, why the heck is it more than the other one..not mentioning
any names, and no offense to anyone, i've tried both and jfw is lacking..for
what it should do for the price.  anyway to give another example (as if i
need another argument against windows:)  windows cant even realize when a
program starts crashing..it either locks the whole system so ya wanna beat
the computer til it cant possibly work, or, the one illegal opp, causes a
dominoe effect that you cant stop fast enough:)
and about the calc, sometimes when u change into that window, it wont read
right away, u have to go out of the window alt-tab, and then back to it
again
then it might not work even
oh hey, take both of the w's out of windows, and all u have left is "in
dos":)
well, thats my 2 cents worth on windows, which its windows....ok ok ok, i'll
stop lol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey8 at telus.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 7:14 AM
Subject: (rant) why microsoft is not easy to use


> oh, can someone please tell me how to get word (crap) to open (with c-o)
in a certain directory?
> this is sort of important for my science class, but i could always bang at
the help which ... <rants more>
> well, here's my small story.
> i was in science class, and wanted to tell word (that word processor that
just
> can't do anything) where to save its stuff and open by default.
> i asked two computer teachers, and nothing. i looked, and nothing. i knew
i had it before, but still, nothing.
> so i'm stuck with that. that's not easy to use. hitting
> backspace in the file lists, and having jfw  announce other information,
is entirely useless.
> and not to mention the windows calculator:
> i got sick of doing c-esc p a c c a dozen times until i got it,
> so just type calc from the run dialog - but anyway,
> i was in calc, (it really really sucks), and
> i made a typo. i hit enter, and it hung the program. jaws still worked,
> but i didn't know it was hung, because it was eating up all my CPU and
making jaws slow.
> so i ahd to ask someone to come over and fix it, because i couldn't access
the
> task manager. now that is ease-of-use? yeah right.
> in linux, i could have hit alt-f2 and typed:
> killall -9 calc
> and it would have (usually) been done.
> same with my scsi addapter - it worked under linux (sort of), worked great
under
> freebsd, but died under ms. i no longer have any ms products on my hard
drives,
> and am puting off the day my father needs ms as long as possible, because
i keep
> "losing" the cds. i probably place them somewhere and forget.
> ms is junk. maybe not for some things, but for most things it doesn't even
work properly.
> you have a disk crash, you're wasting copies of jfw.
> what about jfw and ie? i went to a teacher's page,
> under ie and edbrowse,
> and jaws said (under ie) something like a long url.
> edbrowse said the alt text. arg.
> i pop into dos so often to copy that science document (in .txt of course),
or mkdir something -
> explorer is ... dull. you have to actually press a lot of keys to resize
the columns.
> which, b the way, jaws says "blank", and that is a pain.
> ms doesn't have any sort of api to explorer as far as i know, so we're
stuck with truncated file names until we resize the columns.
> and i hate multi-column lists, because you constantly gotta arrow around
to get at 'm.
> same with word - it lands you on the first file, skipping folders. that
should be configurable, not a forced default.
> or where i want to open my files, not in the ms office directory.
>
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