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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!philipla
- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.075549.29578@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 07:55:49 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.231739.7081@gw.wmich.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan2.231739.7081@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >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."
-
- We're still assuming that the message is as it was originally
- presented - I expect that this is not a very good assumption.
- I'll check on Monday.
-
-
- > However, I think I could live with the DOS 6 message if it
- >also detects Windows NT.
-
- If the message is what I think it is, it probably should.
- Then again, I would also expect that people running the Windows NT
- beta would be aware that it would be incompatible with certain
- features in DOS 6.
-
-
- >>>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.
-
- Explain, then, exactly _how_ the message is anticompetitive.
- You can go on and on about my arrogance, but you haven't answered
- the basic question.
- It all comes down to this: Can the truth be FUD?
-
-
- >>>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.
-
- Again. Why is it anticompetitive?
-
-
- > 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?
-
- Heh. Good one. Very clever.
-
- -Phil
-
-
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