home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!wmichgw!x90wardell
- From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.231739.7081@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:17:38 EST
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
- Lines: 96
-
- In article <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com>, philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >>
- >> All this talk about FUD & Misinformation about OS/2 from Microsoft has
- >>some NEW Merit!
- >>
- >> 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?
- >
- It would be a bad thing to say if your were intsalling
- say MS-CAD. It is the same as if you were installing Word for Windows
- and it detected Ami Pro. I think it would be pretty slimey to have
- Ms-Word say "Ami Pro Detected, due to its disk use, you should probably
- delete it before installing Ms-Word."
- However, I think I could live with the DOS 6 message if it
- also detects Windows NT.
-
- >
- >>So The next time I hear a Micro$oftie say "IT's IBM spreading FUD not us" The
- >>DOS 6.0 Beta will immediately come to mind! It's Simply BULLS**T!!!!
- >
- > Why? The DOS 6 beta work with OS/2 installed, doesn't it?
- >
- >
- >>I Truely Hope This Beta Tester sends this one to the FTC!!!!
- >
- > Please explain what in the above warning message is the
- > slightest bit anticompetitive. See if you can end your sentence
- > with fewer than four exclamation points.
- >
- What an amazingly arrogant comment. I think I will have to buffer
- that one. I think anyone but a pre-programmed MS-Drone would admit that
- such a message about a competiting product is wrong and anticompetitive.
-
- >
- >>If this type of FUD and intentional Misinformation (apparently sanctioned by
- >>management at M$ ) continues, the FTC SHOULD!!!! FINE and Split M$!!!
- >
- > Please explain where in the above warning message is anything
- > that is "FUD and intentional Misinformation". Also explain
- > how fining and splitting MS would do anything positive in
- > this situation, which you apparently find so disturbing.
- >
- >
- Why? Because it is blatantly anti-competitive.
-
-
- >>This is intollerable! All of the Posts claiming "Why punish someone for being
- >>successful?", have no ground in light of this blatent attempt to halt advancement
- >>of technology!!
- >
- > Please explain why a warning message is a "blatent [sic] attempt
- > to halt advancement of technology".
- >
- >
- >>Microsoft is doing what it does best, Trying (Lying) to Users of products of a
- >>competitor!
- >
- > What is the lie?
- >
- >
- >>BTW does anyone know how to Contact the FTC or IBM Lawyers? :)
- >
- > I suggest a phone book. Prepare to be laughed at when you call.
- >
- > -Phil
- >
-
- I was just wondering, when you first start at Microsoft, do they
- give you a set of subliminal arrogance tapes to listen to while you are
- asleep or have you always been this way?
-
- >
- > --
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
- > philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- > Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
-
- -Brad
-
- -----
- Brad Wardell
- I'm for me!
- Independent User
- -----
-
-