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Re: Requiem for OpenDoc

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From: Erik Funkenbusch
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00
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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.
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From: chucks@isd.net (Erik Funkenbusch)
Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
Date: 1997/03/21
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