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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 08:24:52 MDT
- From: earlyd@ee.byu.edu (David Early)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
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- References: <1992Jul25.005338.4298@microsoft.com> <1992Jul29.065821.24656@seas.gwu.edu> <r5nmfzl.xtifr@netcom.com> <1992Jul30.161639.5706@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
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- In article <1992Jul30.161639.5706@microsoft.com>, gordonl@microsoft.com (Gordon Letwin) writes:
- > In article <r5nmfzl.xtifr@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
- > >In <1992Jul29.065821.24656@seas.gwu.edu> lai@seas.gwu.edu (William Y. Lai) writes:
- > >
- > >>Let's be honest here, if Microsoft's apps group does not want to lend a hand
- > >>to the success of OS/2, just come out and say so.
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- >
- > The apps group is *not* developing for the OS/2 PM API for two reasons:
- > 1) the OS/2 API will fail. ...((STUFF DELETED))... But they
- > do NOT want to "lend a hand to the success of OS/2" ...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- You saw it here in writing folks!
-
- > Windows playform to service the OS/2-PM platform. That's
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-
- Am I the only one who caught this sub-conscious slip??? The Windows 'playform'
- is acurate. That is all I ever see anyone using it for: entertainment.
-
- > a dumb gamble to make. Microsoft always bets on the most-likely-to
- > succeed. They usually bet right. When they don't, they recogize that
- > and change. But they're right this time. Wait and see.
- >
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- One thing IBM is good at is standing by their products, especially when it involved the larger
- companies. IBM has sunk a lot of money into this project and a lot of big wigs have bought
- into it. If you think IBM will just up and drop OS/2 (like some other company we all know...)
- and that MS will stick by it's guns in the long term...I think you made the wrong bet.
-
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- > gordon letwin
- > not a spokesman for microsoft
-
-
- To quote a phrase, 'Yea, right'
-