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From: ZUR058@DMSWWU1C.BITNET (Ulrich Hund)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Hidden Features
Message-ID: <91014.120202ZUR058@DMSWWU1C.BITNET>
Date: 14 Jan 91 22:21:41 GMT
References: <819@nih-csl.nih.gov>
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

In article <819@nih-csl.nih.gov>, bert@helix.nih.gov (Bert Tyler) says:
>
>> >...  I hope that someone at Microsoft reads this and passes along
>> > my feelings that they should spend their time making Windows SMALLER,
>> > FASTER, and LESS BUG-RIDDEN (along with decreasing
>>
>> Remember that one way of improving quality is allowing people to be
>> identified with their work.  If your name appears on a product, you
>> are probably more likely to try to make it as good as possible.
>
>Speaking *as* a programmer, I know *I* pay more attention to my work
>when I know the end-users know that I was the one who wrote it.  I kind

Sure, it is better when the programmers are identified with their product,
but if it is done via F3 "win3" F3 (what nobody should know) it is not
worth the trouble. Why don't tell the names in the manual or the startup
screen???  And: The Bug-Fixes are very important, even because everybody
knows the programmers now.

 Ulli