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- From: fwbent@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Bent)
- Subject: Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft
- Message-ID: <BtnCw4.u7@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@math.uwaterloo.ca (News Owner)
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:43:15 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Andrew Zaitsev) writes:
- >Most of the previous posts already include my reasons for
- >hating microsoft.
- >I decided to post, because yesterday I had a new experience,
- >that even made my feelings deeper.
- >I went to the bookstore to see if there are any new books on OS/2
- >and I was most surprised to find on the most visible place OS/2
- >book published by ... Microsoft Press. First couldn't believe my
- >eyes, I thought that the Evil Empire is changing if they release
- >books on the product they used to boycott ...Well, I was wrong -
- >the book was published in 1990, before the Great Split.
- >Anyway, I browsed thru the book and in the section called OS/2 2.0
- >(in 1990!) there was an interview with Bill Gates. He sounded very
- >persistive, telling reporter that OS/2 is the system of the future
- >and that Microsoft is not going to incorporate sophisticated multi-
- >tasking in Windows, leaving it to OS/2, and above all, he confirmed
-
- IE. No threads in MS Windows 3.x or 4.x
-
- >that Windows is just an upgrade path to OS/2.
- >
-
- Sure it is.... OS/2 2.0 allows you to run MS Windows apps. does it not?
- (Even BETTER than Windows 3.1!)
-
- >It looks like mechanisms of changing the historical documents described
- >by George Orwell in "1984" would be very useful for Microsoft.
-
-
- I cannot see anything that Bill Gates said (that you quoted) that is
- inaccurate or misleading....
-
- -Fred Bent
- fwbent@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca
-
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