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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
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- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.185437.27382@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug25.212758.2951@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:54:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann) writes:
- >Because they want to make people stay with DOS/WIN
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- >And they don't adhere to standards, namely they introduced
- >TrueType instead of using the common PostScript in their
- >Win31 -- adds great confusion to the marketplace.
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- One more example: the Microsoft mouse, which is badly designed with 2
- buttons and different protocols. In addition, the unreliable mouse
- is overpriced. I am abandoning the MS mouse coming with my Gateway
- for a better (yet cheaper), say, Genius mouse.
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- Wen-Chun Ni
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