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- From: lai@seas.gwu.edu (William Y. Lai)
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.190637.3435@seas.gwu.edu>
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- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <r5nmfzl.xtifr@netcom.com> <1992Jul30.094508.29104@microsoft.com> <1992Jul30.160022.28509@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:06:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.160022.28509@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
- >What does MS consider selling well for OS/2? Will MS really wait
- >for OS/2 to have 2 million users before thinking of writing apps
- >for OS/2? They would have to catch up to there competition.
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- That's the thing. Gordon says MS will produce apps for OS/2 when there are
- two million USERS, not copies sold. Now how the heck do you count users,
- unless you monitor every one of them? I hope MS isn't playing with words here,
- since they can always claim that copies sold isn't the same as copies used,
- and there is no way in hell anyone can proof usage of SW, given there is no
- standard defintition of "usage."
-
- And yes, Pete, I do use WfW 2.0 w/ OS/2, and I would much rather use a native
- OS/2 version, if (or when) it ever get developed. Same for Excel, Powerpoint,
- etc., since that's my office standard, and they happen to be darn good apps.
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- William Lai
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- Dept. of Electrical Eng.| I have a wonderful, wonderful life. But there's so
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