BETRAYAL BY MICHAEL DELL AND BILL GATES

The dishonesty and chicannery that can exist in a Corporate structure, how many people can be involved, and how long it can go on without detection today, just befuddles my mind.  There are those who work with large  companies who will out-right lie for them, apparently in fear of their jobs were they to be overheard telling the truth and lose their jobs because they dared be honest..  My travails began when I succuumbed to the cajoles and entreaties (Ads) to buy my next computer from Dell, and so I did.  It was a model #         , with the software, Windows ME.  Almost from the start I had trouble with that program, and I had to keep calling my local Guru to obtain information, or to have him visit my home and figure out what had gone wrong with it.  I complained and I wrote eMails, and I had friends and r elatives who also gave me assistance.  I lost hours, days, even a week at one point, but I began to hear nasty things about ME, and several people told me that, "Howard, ME is an unstable program.  It never should have been put on the market until all the bugs were worked ouit of it.  It is the WORST program that Microsoft ever put out."  In the meantime I heard all sorts of good things about Windows XP, or that I should have Windows 2000, which was a good, solid work platform, but NO, NO, NO, not ME.  Yet Microsoft continued to market it, and Dell and other continued to install and sell it, causing millions of non-professional compouter users untold probloems, hours and hours of frustrations.  That, in itself, is criminal! 

If instead of software, it were a metal device, used as a part on a car, they would have had to recall every single car and install new parts and extend the warranty!  Bill Gates and Microsoft would have been headlined across the country, and so would  Micheal Dell, and punished or penalized for their failures.  Michael Dell should have fought hard on behalf of those who bought his machines, because it made them perform badly, and this reflected upon both him and his company.  He was as derelict in his responsibilities as was the esteemed Bill Gates, that's for certain.  But, do billionaires really have a conscience?  Perhaps, but not in making money, only, poerhaps in what to do with it afterwards and what they can put their name on in order to appear to be socially responsible. 

Think of the millions of people who were frustrated, the billions of hours of production lost, the billions of dollars spent simply trying to keep the program up and running.  I call that FRAUD.  Bill Gates and Melinda run around the world trying to solve the world's needs, but here at home, Microsoft was betraying those who make them their money and working in collusion with Michale Dell to sell every damn copy of an unstable, faulty, lousey product thatr fell far short of expectations for them and for us.  But, the responsibility was theirs!  Billionaires, who with a wave of their hand could have made things right.

THE ELDERLY: It was about this time that more and more of the elderly were trying to udnderstand the Internet, and buying computers.  Some had very small incomes, but they had to sacrifice in order to get help, $35 to $50 a pop.  That was e4lderly abuse, elder fraud, courtesy Bill's Gates' Microsoft and Michael Dell's Dell Computer.  But what do you care when your billions buy you Kingly splendor?

Yes, Windows ME was a laugh (if you didn't have it inst alled in your computer, a royal shafting by Gates and Ell, perhaps a conspriacy to defaud.  I asked for Dell to give me a coyy of XP, or even  Windows 2000, but they refused.

Do we need more government oversight? more government in our lives? overseeing every little detal?  Well, from the actions of Dell Computer and Gates' Microsoft, otviously we do.  I hate the thought of it, but they deserve billying powerful Washington types looking over their shoulders at all times; they're not loath to lie, deceive and cheat to public the way I see it.

THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT BONES

Instead of training our children to be such a lot of oversenstive sniveling whining little ninnies, why don't we teach them mental toughness, put some strong fiber in their bones. 

The three most important bones in your body are: A backbone to stand up to people, a jawbone to talk back to people, and, a funny bone to laugh at foolish remarks 

Howard E. Morseburg