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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1i3uh5INN55b@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 11:32:53 GMT
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- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- In article <29DEC199209332560@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
- >FWIW, the rumor is that BG went ballistic when he found out that the
- >applications group was using undocumented calls. Not because they got caught;
- >but rather, because the application will quit working if that specific function
- >is removed from the next Windows release. In effect, the applications group
- >is imposing standards on the OS group, i.e. "Remember that incredibly ugly
- >kludge you had to make to get version x.x out the door? Well it will now haunt
- >you for life because some clown in apps decided to cut a corner".
-
- Supposedly, Apple had to put a lot of hacks in Multifinder to recognize certain
- Microsoft applications and do ungodly things to make sure that they would
- work because MS applications programmers violated a lot of rules.
-
- I wonder if any of the applications people doing Windows stuff at MS were
- the same as the people who did their Macintosh stuff?
-
- --Tim Smith
-