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- From: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.212758.2951@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 04:27:57 GMT
- References: <Aug24.103534.26466@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, peters@CS.ColoState.EDU (eric peters) says:
- >
- >>I realize that microsoft has the market cornered with DOS (no flames...
- >>I know OS/2 and DR-DOS are out there), and windows (I hate windows, but its
- >>got nothing to do with who makes it... i don't care for macs for the same
- >>reason).... but why is everyone so opposed to Microsoft?
- >
- >I have two gripes.
- >
- >One is that they write cruddy, archane operating systems full of undocumented
- >functions which thier own applications seem to know about and use.
- >
- >The other is that they seem to concentrate on selling average to poor quality
- >software to stupid micro computer users rather than making good stuff that
- >sells itself. (ms has made some good products, but they tend to be
- >the exceptions, not the rule.)
-
- Word for Windows, Excel, Visual BASIC. Hmm. If this is "average to poor
- quality" I'd *love* to see some great-quality software. I don't think
- Microsoft can do no wrong, but I am happy with all of the MS software I
- own. (Then again, I have to use UNIX at work, so anything I can run on my
- PC seems wonderful).
-
- Stephen
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