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Re: Requiem for OpenDoc

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From: bgqhrdrrdw0.bnl Chris J. Alumbau...
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00
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In message <3332c3de.0@usamrid.isd.net> - chucks@isd.net (Erik
Funkenbusch)Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:26:46 GMT writes:
:>
:>In article <5gsssh$bvk@lehi.kuentos.guam.net>, crobato@kuentos.guam.net wrote:
:>>In <33305cf6.0@usamrid.isd.net>, chucks@isd.net (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
:>>>In article <333008b1.0@news.essex1.com>, bgqhr!drrdw0.bnl (Chris J. Alumbaugh)
:>> wrote:
:>>>>What a lame, ignorant post, from someone who defends a certain other
:>>>>software company whose dismal record on ship dates is overshadowed only by
:>>>>horror stories of ~43 yr old "lost" letters from the postal service.  IBM
:>>>>has "delievered" quite a bit of the technologies that are the computer you
:>>>>are running, and let's see,, Microsoft made a mouse and BOB and a some
:>>>>other stuff that  I have even a lower opinion of.  Yeah, I guess Microsoft
:>>>>delievered on Windows 95 and active X and IE,, but I got to say, I'll take
:>>>>"dead" IBM technology ANY day over what MS dellievered. Can you say
:>>>>CAIRO=1994??  Wouldn't happen to have a harddrive with PMRL technology
:>>>>would you?
:>>>
:>>>Excuse me?  NT 3.1 didn't even come out until 1993, Cairo wasn't even planned 
:>>>until 1994.  How the hell could it have been late before it was even 
:>>>announced?
:>>>
:>>>Fact is, the vast majority of MS products are delivered ON TIME or *EARLY*.
:>>
:>>Nonsense.  This goes against the grain and every prediction and 
:>>expectation of everyone in 1992 and 1993 about NT and Cairo.
:>
:>Please provide sources for this Chris.  You can't, because they don't exist.
:>
:>I challenge you to name 10 products that MS was more than 3 months late with.  
:>I can name dozens that were on time or early.
:>

You lie,  Dozens = a minimum of 48 products even at a conservative
interpretation. You cannot name 48 microsoft products that were on time or
early.

Chris J. Alumbaugh
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From: bgqhr!drrdw0.bnl (Chris J. Alumbaugh)
Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
Date: 1997/03/21
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