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Article #6708Re:OS/2 in "The Australian" (30th May) - Lies by MS!
From: Kim Lee
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00
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In message <Pine.SV4.3.91.950531114628.21237A-100000@brisbane.DIALix.oz.au> -
Mark Farnham <mfarnham@brisbane.DIALix.oz.au> writes:
:>
:>On Tue, 30 May 1995, Jamie Paul CURMI wrote:
:>
:>> Date: Tue, 30 MAY 1995 22:45:39 GMT
:>> From: Jamie Paul CURMI <curmi@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
:>> Newgroups: aus.computers.os2, comp.os.os2.advocacy,
:>> comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
:>> Subject: OS/2 in "The Australian" (30th May) - Lies by MS!
:>>
:>> Hi!
:>>
:>> In the Australian (a national Australian news paper) on the 30th May, there is
:>> an articles about Windows 95 - "Where Gates went wrong". It discusses how
:>> MS may only sell 20 million copies of Win95 in the first 9 months. In the
:>> article, Mr Joachim Kempin (Senior Vice President of Microsoft) says:
:>> "There are difficulties in finding native applications for OS/2...
:>> and Warp is, in fact, a fairly thin layer on top of Windows".
:>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:>>
:>> Since when? Warp doesn't run on top of windows...what is this rubbish?
:>> How can MS get away with saying this in the press?
:>>
:>> I am so sick of the FUD in the press. OS/2 doesn't have a chance because
:>> of comments like this in the paper. People believe what they read -
:>> especially when it comes from the lips of MS. How about a letter campaign
:>> to the Australian about this (before next Tuesday's paper)? Does anyone
:>> know if they have an email address?
:>>
:> The Australian e-mail addresses can be found on the back page of
:>the computer section. Editorial letters go to Jeremy Horey at
:> jhorey@ozemail.com.au
Thanks. Let's start abusing THEM!!!!!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a752,e856bc086a046f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,e856bc086a046f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public X-Google-Thread: 10d0a1,e856bc086a046f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid10d0a1,public From: kim@zip.com.au (Kim Lee) Subject: Re:OS/2 in "The Australian" (30th May) - Lies by MS! Date: 1995/05/31 Message-ID: <3qgqgd$fbm@zipper.zip.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 103492399 references: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950531114628.21237A-100000@brisbane.DIALix.oz.au> organization: Pretty bad. newsgroups: aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy