Nick Loveday

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 26, 1999

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April 26, 1999, on Macintosh to Windows NT Migration:
As one of the mac faithful for a long time, I've known, used and loved most mac's from the MacPlus on (my age shows here). At work I'm a serious heavy power user of Word/Exel/Powerpoint on Windows and I have to put up with average 2-3 crashes per day on 3.11 and NT. Therefore I cannot recommend the Windoze alternative. These crashes are often Word 97 crashing for no explicable reason, sometimes Windows NT on itself. Just keeping Windows NT in working order is a problem in a large environment - I have to re-install from scratch (reformat the disk) maybe once every 3 months to blow away garbage that won't un-install properly. Also, an above average user is likely to tinker in NT in ways that may have funny effects like losing all the icons, that can't be undone short of a reinstall. Windows NT and 98 seem to me to be rather unnecessarily, itsy-bitsy, complicated shams of a windows-based GUI. Underneath it all is still a lot of DOS thinking that they haven't really shaken off. Workgroup...