[pchelpers] Re: Preview pane and the dangerous world of Microsoftand dishonest business people
- From: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:32:37 +0300
> You only
> thought you could stop OE from opening the first email in your inbox.
> What he means with the following is in the background, virtually,
> without the message "physically" i.e. visually opening in a new window
>
> It looks to me, Georgi, that you read quite a bit into what your "guru"
> actually said.
I'm pretty sure he would have phrased the whole thing differently if he
didn't mean "open automatically, without the user noticing". If it were
only a question of changing a stupid default setting, that would be an
everyday routine situation for a Microsoft product, and then he wouldn't
have reiterated the thing because it would have sounded bombastic
considering that everybody would have known and seen this all the time:
Listen to this again: Outlook Express automatically opens the first
message that arrives in an empty Inbox.
Maybe i'll send him an email to be sure what he meant and if this is
*one* of the things that has perhaps been fixed in the meantime, as
Scott was wondering.
> But take heart and calm down my unnecessarily angry little
> friend, in the grand scheme of things none of this is very important. Now
> what is important in the grand scheme is whether I steal time from my
> employer even with important deadlines to be met, which I don't do. If I did
> I really would be a poor helpless little idiot, don't you think?
Don't worry, i'm not scared or too worked up and neither need to take
heart or calm down, at least as far as the computer side of things is
concerned. All i'm saying and detailing is that and how Microsoft is
ripping its customers off, even with its "free" programs IE and OE.
My comments about the Bush administration were only slightly off topic
because it's interesting (as well as very dangerous) that the US
government is run along the same technical, ethical, and business lines
as Microsoft.
And that, my big friend (how big are you?! i'm already almost 2 meters)
*is* very important in the grand scheme of things; actually the apathy
of about 70% of the US population is an even bigger problem -- even more
so for the rest of the world. They can only watch the world being turned
into a big mess instead of conflicts being resolved. If the majority of
the US population doesn't even realize the insanity of executing
children who have committed murder, there is little hope of them
understanding that the way to reduce terrorism is not through war and
violence.
Ekhart
(By the way, the "last name last" after my name in the email header
means that Ekhart is my first name, but maybe you just didn't believe
me? In fact, most names ending in -hard or -hart are first names and
most names ending in -i are last names e.g. Pavarotti, Amati, Paganini,
da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Stradivari)
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