Why don't we (I mean the confocal group) organize an opinion poll?
Then we could send the results to the OEMs. I for one would like to
see some decent software for our microscope, and definitely *not*
under Windows of any kind (I don't like to be taken for an imbecile
who cannot use a computer without a dozen silly icons on the screen).
 
Laszlo Menczel
LSM Laboratory
Biological Research Center
Szeged, Hungary
 
> Isn't it important that the OEM's not get fooled (like the public)
> with MS and other flavors of hype?  Could that be a useful purpose
> of this discussion ?
 
Bryan Crawford wrote:
 
> This will only happen if the OEM's and their contracted software
> developers are listening to the users rather than (or at least
> as well as) Microsoft.  I have had this converstation with Zeiss
 
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> have to both be aware of it, and consider it signifigant.  How
> we might achieve these ends is an open question.