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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Win4Wkgrps threatens OS/2.....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.082818.9685@microsoft.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 08:28:18 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1993Jan11.134121.16057@kub.nl> <1993Jan11.100707.20600@actrix.gen.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan11.134121.16057@kub.nl> hoppie@kub.nl wrote:
- > 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?
- >
-
- Yes, you are. The key here is the standard API's for networked information
- exchange (named pipes, net dde, mail api, etc). Yes, OS/2 has/can have some
- of these things, as separate add-on packages which are not brought up to the
- API level.
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- petesk@microsoft.com
- My Opinions...
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