The tales

I attended yet another training session by Mallon Associates. I absolutely adore these guys, especially their vast knowledge, their experience in industry and subtle sense of humor. And something common between all these guys is, they love to hate microsoft and joke about them. Some of these stories, even if told repeatedly, are great to hear.

Paul told about how microsoft made money by selling beta version of windows 98. They made people take their not complete-in testing phase product, made them test it, give feedback and actually managed to take money from them for this effort. That is like the most cheekiest thing one can ever do!

Another funny thing about microsoft is the progress bar that they have. Why is it called a progress bar when it loads fast initially and then seems to be stuck at a particular percentage for ages. You can easily demonstrate this while copying a file. Actually it is more irritating in vista wherein it appears even when you open explorer.

One interesting fact that I was not aware of is, when you open a browser window, windows has to make 40000 registry reads. Now I will say that is a design flaw. Why do you want to be so dependent on registry! Another one was the messed up locking(lock(x)) in Sun, and microsoft copying it blindly instead of correcting the mistake. What happened to पुढच्यास ठेच मागचा शहाणा???