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- From: sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <C08yMJ.9xr@csulb.edu>
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- References: <1992Dec29.004640.2498@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <29DEC199209332560@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1i3uh5INN55b@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:03:55 GMT
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- In article <1i3uh5INN55b@shelley.u.washington.edu> tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- >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?
- >
-
- In this vein, an interesting comment appeared in the new Windows Sources
- magazine on P. 192 (lower box) within a review of Windows for Workgroups,
- commenting on the MAPI standard that WFWG uses.
-
- Quoted without permission:
-
- "An interesting aside to all of this is how shocked we were to find that
- Excel 4.0 was a MAPI-compliant application. Excel was released around the same
- time as Windows 3.0, and several months before Mail 3.0. What this says for
- Microsoft's so-called Chinese wall between divisions is anybody's guess.
- But we wouldn't be surprised if the FTC took interest in this latest example
- of intercommunication between systems and applications divisions at Microsoft."
-
- Personally, I don't recall Excel 4.0 as being THAT old (back to Win 3.0).
- Does anyone remember the exact release date and when the MAPI standard was
- first publicly proposed/released ?
-
-
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- Jeff Sicherman
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