> > > Why does Microsoft suck so bad?
> > >
> > > Gri"glad MS doesn't own Adobe"shny
> >
> > Because no matter how bad their products
> are, people are still prepared to buy them
> instead of cheaper and more reliable
> alternatives.
> >
> > winter"It's all the consumer's fault"mute
>
> Actually, I agree with Matthew that most of their
> products are good. However, the ones that
> aren't suck royally. And even some of the good
> ones are sometimes buggy, in my experience.

I've yet to find an MS product that isn't in competition with something cheaper, less buggy and generally better. WordPerfect (even after Corel turned it into bloatware) is vastly superior to Word, and so on and so forth.

winter"MS stuff is OK, but there's better stuff out there"mute