Re: Apple's poor positioning for the age *after* x86
- From: Daniel Johnson <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:05:32 -0400
On 2005-09-25 23:59:31 -0400, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
In article <2005092417513516807%danieljohnson@vzavenuenet>, Daniel Johnson <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2005-09-24 13:15:55 -0400, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:No, but obviously we're considering a situation where Google actually introduces these things.
They would certainly not abandon their 'normal' web search.
No, of course not, they'd just return more relevant and more controllable results by doing something a bit more than keyword search.
I think that people who want to be found will just stick to the normal search, because that finds more stuff. I don't see theses Google-APIs getting much uptake unless the people who would use them get found *more easily* because of it. This would imply returning *more* results, I think.
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AOL I should not be surprised at. :D
But I wonder how old the release was you were uninstalling. You presumably saw this when uninstalling those apps, so they would not have been brand new then, right?
They were fairly new. AOL was being uninstalled because it had shipped with the system (a recent model Dell, at the time), and QuickBooks was being uninstalled because it was acting up and Intuit thought it might help to uninstall and reinstall it.
I still do not know what the timeframe was. These sorts of "paranoid installers" were universal in '95 and sort of tailed off. I think I saw one last in maybe '02.
It was part of the upgrade from 16-bit windows.
Though honestly, even flawed uninstallers like those you describe are better than not having uninstallers at all.
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You are trying to parley a weakness of the Mac into a strength. It is most unconvincing.
That's a crazy claim. The 'All Programs' list is a crutch to hide the horrible mess that is the Windows file system, and moreover its nearly useless organizational structure (whoever had the idea of listing apps by vendor should be shot) renders it inferior to just dropping /Applications in the Dock, should the user actually want a menu with all installed apps.
That's a bit like having an ad-hoc start menu, but without the ability to support "per user" installations, which the start menu has. It can only access apps installed in the right place, which is a global place.
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Anyway, I've been meaning to work around to some recent developments on the 'Microsoft isn't a very good at software' front.
Take a look at this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112743680328349448,00.html?mod=todays_
us_page_one
This
is available only to subscribers (ie, not me)
It seems that among other things, Microsoft didn't figure out automated testing until last year.
I do not believe that for moment. It is more like that MS added another automated testing tool or technique to the ones they are using, and a journalist misunderstood. Journalist, if you will forgive my saying so, are good at that. :D
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