Saying he should have 'done research' is pretty dismissive about the scale of differences from one OS to another.
No it isn't. It's common sense as I said. Would you go up in front of millions of people and "demo" something before doing some run throughs before hand?
I'm in the computer field. I have experience on both Windows and Linux platforms. I can certainly understand many on the Linux side looking down on Windows and not really being interested in knowing about that platform. However, if you're going to be presenting something which includes artifacts from the Windows platform you probably should have a cursory understanding of whatever you're going to present.
OK: go become a lawyer in a week.
Or be a doctor in a week.
Or general auto-mechanic in a week.
Saying he should have 'done research' is pretty dismissive about the scale of differences from one OS to another.
No it isn't. It's common sense as I said. Would you go up in front of millions of people and "demo" something before doing some run throughs before hand?
I'm in the computer field. I have experience on both Windows and Linux platforms. I can certainly understand many on the Linux side looking down on Windows and not really being interested in knowing about that platform. However, if you're going to be presenting something which includes artifacts from the Windows platform you probably should have a cursory understanding of whatever you're going to present.