Alan Milnes wrote:

> Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
>>
>> On Windows
>> * Installing software is easy
>
> On Windows installing software is incredibly difficult. You need to know
> where the package is, e.g. find the CD-Rom that was supplied with your
> printer or hunt all over the internet to find it (hoping you don't
> download a copy with malware by mistake).

Hear, hear. Yesterday the wife was forced to use XP - I hadn't figured out
how to make OpenOffice do labels, yet, and VirtualBox for some reason can't
use DDE between Word and Excel. It turned out that XP can't enable her
D-Link wireless - even _after_ I searched for and found the install CD -
that was plug-n-play in Kubuntu. Well, now I've figured out labels from
OpenOffice - silly me, I expected it to be in Mail-merge.

> No I am sorry the idea that installing software on Windows is easy is
> just a false rumour spread by Microsoft.

I don't think they've even spread it. Users seem to just assume it.
--
derek


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