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[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/21/15 1:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/21/2015 8:23 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> this simply not work.
>
> Neither does Windows Moviemaker. It hung again on me.

Just FYI iMovie works just fine ;)

>> and not worth it.
>
> WMM is over a decade old, and it still hangs doing something as simple
> as trimming off the start and the end. And not rarely, either. It does
> it constantly.

This is pretty bad. I remember in college we had a "movie lab" which had 
lots of hi-end PCs running NT 4.0, with, among other things, 3D-studio 
max. In the 3d-graphics class I took, one of our assignments was to use 
3DSM to animate something with certain requirements. The thing crashed 
so frequently that several students made 3d-animations focused on how 
horrible 3DSM was :)

When software you are using that is supposed to make things easier gets 
in the way, you may as well not use it.

>
> Why even ship such a product you have no intention of fixing bugs for?
> It's a net negative for one's image.
>

I wonder if it's for a bullet point. I know my sister-in-law has made 
videos with WMM (and she is NOT a techie), but they were simple movies. 
Perhaps if you want to do anything super-involved, it's not ready for 
the job.

Also, in one company I worked for, we had a paid contract with Microsoft 
for fixing bugs. I worked for months with them on a bug in one of their 
advanced server systems. In the end, they narrowed it down to the fact 
that the system required MSSQL express (not full version), which only 
worked with a shared-memory interface. Something in their server just 
didn't work right. So we had to install full-blown MSSQL which was 
configured only to use network connection. Then in about 6 months they 
discontinued that advanced server product. Then I rewrote the whole 
thing in Linux ;)

Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft is simply a marketing arm of other OSes...

But I am surprised MS does not have some way to get reasonable paid 
support for their software. Apple gives you 1 year free 
software/hardware support when you buy a Mac. I can fully understand not 
offering "Free" support. Not everyone is a Walter Bright.

-Steve