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Article #392Microsoft BASIC & New Support Prices
From: John Villalovos
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:13
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:13
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Any one else out there notice that since December 1st Microsoft does not offer free support anymore for their BASIC products (at least PDS). Now you have to call either a 900 number, 800 number with credit card, CI$, or Genie. They don't seem to do this with programs like Excel. I wonder if they do it with their C compliler. Probably not since Borland competes with them in that language. But since MS is around the only one who does BASIC and controls most of the market I guess they think that they can force people to pay for support. I asked them if they supported the Internet and the said no. Anyone know of any good BASIC compilers out there from company's who are willing to support their product. Later, -- John Villalovos Certified Netware Engineer villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu (503) 753-7883
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!reed!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!xanth.CS.ORST.EDU!villalj From: villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic Subject: Microsoft BASIC & New Support Prices Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:13:31 GMT Organization: Oregon State University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <1gor8rINN63l@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: xanth.cs.orst.edu