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- From: soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn)
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.052436.3467@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul29.065821.24656@seas.gwu.edu> <r5nmfzl.xtifr@netcom.com> <1992Jul30.094508.29104@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:24:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.094508.29104@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >MS, Frame, etc. If OS/2 looks like it'll sell well, then MS may write
- >apps for it. However, the general though is that it makes more sense
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >to write for Win32 at this point in time. This is true for a lot of
- ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >App developers.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Pete, I really don't know what's your ground on which you can base
- such a **seemingly** self-contradictory statement. Self-contradictory,
- because NT is not available now (the beta is not out yet, I believe).
- And you claim that a lot more apps developers are developing for NT
- than for OS/2. Is there a way you can back up such a statement? Whose
- general thought is it anyway?
-
- >
- >Oh, yeah, if you really want MS apps for OS/2, get your friends together
- >and complain to MS. However, I think you should want the apps for wanting
- >the apps, not to make OS/2 a success. Seems kind of sleazy to me if you
- >request MS apps just to make OS/2 more popular, and then buy other apps.
-
- Well, actually, I don't believe MS do not have guts to develop for os/2 even
- if it will make a lot of money for them, simply because MS
- developing for os/2 seems to confirm the notion that os/2 is a viable
- operating system. This would be the last thing MS would do. Then the
- huge success of os/2 that is becoming more and more obvious nowadays seems
- to signal the fate of MS in os/2 market
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- Min
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