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- From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.041251.34239@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:12:51 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 49
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- In article <f41802eS2fjZ01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, rwb00@avon.as (Robert W Beverid
- ge) writes:
- >
- >In article Ds0@news.iastate.edu, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) w
- rites:
- >>In article <1992Dec22.102732.22124@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- >>helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >>>In article <BzMLLx.JtD@news.iastate.edu>, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy
- I Miller) writes:
-
- (stuff deleted)
-
- >This issue keeps coming up, but I don't get it - because:
- >
- > 1) the original business week article that touched off this flame fest
- > only mentioned questions about Microsoft's sales/distribution policies
- > - there was no mention of undocumented DOS/Win calls being a target of
- > the FTC. I know this is a favorite topic of the more paranoid OS/2ers,
- > but I haven't seen anything that indicates the FTC is interested.
-
- Agreed. This is probably at best a trivial point.
-
- >
- > 2) I have yet to see a single example of an undocumented call that gives
- > any Microsoft program any significant advantage.
-
- Don't know. Haven't seen their source code.
-
- >
- > 3) if there is a sinister Microsoft plot involving undocumented calls, it
- > isn't working very well - I don't see how Microsoft has taken over any
- > of the big 3 application areas - word processing, spreadsheets or
- > databases.
- >
-
- Pray tell, what are the best selling Windows word processor and spreadsheet?
- That's right, Word for Windows 2.0 and Excel 4.0. Also Windows apps passed
- DOS apps in sales this year. Still think they don't dominate any application
- classes? In addition they own FoxPro which has significant though not
- overwhelming market share.
-
- --
- Stacy John Behrens
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