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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.000951.23193@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 00:09:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu> <1i4f7sINNd8s@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1i4f7sINNd8s@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >|>z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >|>>
- >|>>
- >|>> I Recently talked to a Beta Tester of DOS 6.0. He Runs OS/2 with 2 Hard
- >|>>Drives, One FAT, One HPFS. He decided to Install the DOS 6.0 Beta on the FAT
- >|>>Partition, and got a Message saying, and I paraphrase:
- >|>>
- >|>>- OS/2 Detected! Due to the size of OS/2 you may wish to delete your OS/2
- >|>>files before installing DOS 6.0 -
- >|>
- >|> Interesting. What is the problem with that? If there was a
- >|>similar message that said "Autocad detected. Due to the size of
- >|>Autocad you may wish to delete your Autocad files before installing
- >|>DOS 6.0", whould that be bad too?
- >
- >The problem is that it is unprofessional. Yes, OS/2 and MS-DOS are
- >competitors that offer some of the same things. No, the warning
- >message as stated above is not illegal or immoral. Its just
- >inappropriate.
-
- The message quote above is _not_ the warning message in
- the actual beta. It has been "quoted" (read invented) by a
- person who _doesn't_ have the beta and clearly has an agenda
- in their post. Hardly an objective source.
- When I get back to work on Monday I'll see if I can't find
- out what the actual message is.
-
-
- >It strikes me that most of the employees at MS are on the young side
- >(read that as younger than me :-) ). They may have felt the above
- >message was "cute" or "funny". They may not have considered that not
- >a few people would consider it "immature". I think MS ends up looking
- >small and petty for such things.
-
- Source code at Microsoft goes through a fairly rigorous review
- process - it's unlikely that something "cute" or "funny" would
- make it into a final product.
- And, note again that we're talking about a _beta_ product.
-
- -Phil
-
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