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- From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
- Subject: Re: Win4Wkgrps threatens OS/2.....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.134121.16057@kub.nl>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 13:41:21 GMT
- Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- References: <1993Jan11.100707.20600@actrix.gen.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan11.100707.20600@actrix.gen.nz>, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
-
- |> Briefly, Microsoft says that its vision for the future is to make
- |> Windows for Workgroups the basic operating system that would
- |> allow any developer's application to work with just about any
- |> other application through the application programming interfaces
- |> (APIs) contained in WFW.
-
- Nice. And of course, tomorrow all existing DOS and Windows apps will be re-written
- for the use of this API and available for free, will they?
-
- This Is Nothing New! What about DDE and OLE? If apps are written to understand
- these protocols, they can chat! So what? Just include DDE/OLE in OS/2 and off
- we go.
-
- Or am I missing something important here?
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-
-
- Jeroen
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- --
- Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at | Stop connecting computers;
- Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands | start connecting people!
-