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- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.114422.19944@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:44:22 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug25.212758.2951@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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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
- > and not going to far superior OSses (like OS/2 2.0).
- >
- > And they don't deliver Excel 4 for OS/2 2.0 because they
- > dislike IBM. Or do they need Excel (one of the more
- > usable MS-Products) to support their Semi- (WIN) and
- > Vaporware- (NT) OSses?
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Just my personal opinion.
-
- Don't forget about the undocumented features in DOS and Windows that MS apps
- make use of, but no one else was told about...........you don't want a company
- like that having a near monopoly on the desktop.
-
- No principles. No integrity.
-
- So sue me.
-
- Steve
-
- --
- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | If you don't vote for MMP on
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | September 19, 1992, then you
- withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz | must like things the way they
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | are.....can I live with YOU?
-