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Re: Requiem for OpenDoc

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From: John Ominor
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00
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In message <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*.

I am John Ominor,  The Inhuman.  Name but a single Microsoft product that
came out early.  You are mistaken in so many ways that only John Ominor
would dare to address them.  Ominor defies you to list any Microsoft
product what was announced both signicantly before its release and
publicly, and yet was delivered on time.  Internet Explorer 4.0, Windows NT
5.0, and Windows 97 have all been pushed back.


____________________________________________________________________
John Ominor
#dmccoy@mailhost.mnsinc.com

Even now, The Inhuman ponders the fate of everything you hold 
dear. This is not a threat, merely a statement of fact. 

FORTRESS Ominor is Here.
http://www.mnsinc.com/dmccoy 
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From: John Ominor
Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
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