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Article #6710Re: OS/2 in "The Australian" (30th May) - Lies by MS!
From: George Vlahoulis
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00
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Jamie Paul CURMI (curmi@cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
> 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...
So he admits that there are os/2 apps out there, good!!!
> and Warp is, in fact, a fairly thin layer on top of Windows".
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
HaHaHAHaHAHA........ Thats a good one. Is this guy on drugs or something?
> 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?
What was the response of the author about that stupid comment?
> 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?
> Jamie
Yeah anyone?
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> Jamie P. Curmi | Email: curmi@aaii.oz.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a752,e856bc086a046f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 10d0a1,e856bc086a046f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid10d0a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,e856bc086a046f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public From: s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis) Subject: Re: OS/2 in "The Australian" (30th May) - Lies by MS! Date: 1995/05/31 Message-ID: <3qghn1$ien@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> X-Deja-AN: 103492870 references: <9515108.19982@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> followup-to: aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. newsgroups: aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy nntp-posting-user: s9312643