winstep wrote:
nexter wrote:
my comment was very swiftly deleted.
That's what I don't understand - they don't normally do that (as far as I know). I know you can be brutally blunt at times,
perhaps they took that the wrong way? Without reading your original post I can't really offer a fair opinion.
Anyway, in regards to the customer being always right: I understand that there are situations where it's in your own best interest to swallow a toad (when it's not your business or when huge amounts of money are on the line and you have a family to feed). However, as you said so yourself, that is not the case here.
Hope you understood I don't go off on a dime either, you should know me well enough by now for that lol.
Just don't curse and be rude to the nice ladies at BMT Micro who are only doing their work - THAT I do not forgive.
LOL! Indeed I know you well enough Jorge - one should hope so after some 20 years, give or take, on and off.
And I think I know you well enough to be pretty darn sure that you would not delete a post purely because it happens to be critical of your app (if it's all done 'playing nice' and not abusive) but would try to answer points raised and hope to still get the sale.
Indeed, I can be brutally blunt, you got that right Jorge, LOL. And age hath not mellowed me either.
I've never suffered fools, gladly or otherwise, and tend to do so ever less the older I get - life's too short to p*** in the wind.
But I did keep my post perfectly civil. I know better than to blow off - that never got good results anywhere. Pity I didn't keep a copy, else you'd have had that already.
As a by the by in re: blowing off, take people who (even today still) 'blow off' about MS and Windows. Only serves to make them look perfectly silly. Doesn't change a thing and doesn't help make Windows better, does it. Sure, I think Win10 sucks majorly in several/many respects and I think anything beyond WinXP or Win7 was a major mistake by MS, when they could and should have created a completely new, fully 64bit OS instead of continuing with what is basically a kludge that builds on NT, (which itself still had some 16bit code) keeping a lot of 32bit stuff and just making it 64bit compatible. In a new, fully 64bit OS they could have provided an emulation layer (as Apple did with MOSX for old Mac apps) to run existing NT-based apps, totally transparent to the user (unlike MS's XP emulation in Win7). But do I blow off about it all, or do I let MS have some critical but constructive feedback? Well, what d'ya think?
And MS, contrary to 'popular' belief, do listen to people. Like any sensibly run business.
Anyway, I think we do owe dear Bill and MS a certain debt of gratitude. Simply for this - Windows becoming the only ordinary desktop OS (if you discount Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (?), and 'The Dark Side' - which really is only of interest to folk in the music industry and to gadget/brand freaks who believe in the gospel according to St. Steve) has meant that apps are far cheaper than they would otherwise be as developers sell far more copies on the one platform without having to port to x-number of others. On the whole, MS haven't done too bad a job really, although of course they could have done much better. We should always bear in mind that today's desktop OS, i.e., Windows, has to be all things to all men as it were, unlike a dedicated workstation OS. And that means, compromises, lots of them.
Just my
never ever 'humble' opinions.