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"What Marketing Will Get You," on Paint by Herr D. This appears to be an example of sarcasm.-Shelob

[chat interrupt] Do you have a blog topic?

[resumption of typing in irritated rhythm] How about UPDATES? maybe you have some STATS? Maybe you can compare Windows to DOS and tell us why we're in this s-MESS!
[rapid download, .00008615743856 seconds] With the six days of net failure due to virus from Russian source, your updates required from Windows have totaled 41:09 and 48.95674334567 seconds. DOS updates were sometimes simultaneous and optional. At the advent of the net, DOS could operate successfully with the visual matrix available in QuickBasic, for example, but required such a crutch the same way Windows required crutches to operate on PCs such as yours.

What was the difference?
The difference was that QuickBasic was $0.00, being shareware, and Windows had a variety of purchase prices due to local sales tax.

[pause] I meant speed and quality of operation. Capability. That kind of thing?
Despite Windows innumerable problems, it was capable in 1990 of performing over 74% of the functions DOS could do at very close to the same speed (microseconds slower, beyond human ability to judge.)

[pause] And quality?
Windows wore out hardware from 3.1003 to 3.1009 times faster by 1993, depending upon variables not accounted for, performing the same operations. The graphics were equitable. The archival and language platform capabilities were comparable.

[longer pause] When did Windows become capable of doing everything DOS already did?
Late July, 2003. Launch date of updates varied over two hundred hours.

So, why do we have Windows?
A successful marketing campaign supplanted DOS in the business world. Individual users had to be compatible to afford personal use.

Same reason for the political mess we're in. Great.
The good news, as Hairy instructed to remind you, is that 'the political mess will mess differently soon.'

Wow. Thanks. [exits]