Re: Buyer Beware--MIDWEST MICRO

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From: kgaugler
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 21:16

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In article <1994Jul18.115627.22446@london.chevron.com>, <anonymous@chevron.com> 
writes:
> On a similar vein, I recently contacted MicroSoft in the UK to try and get 
hold 
> of the speaker drivers for Windows. It took about four attempts to get 
through
> but they then sent me a disk with all their latest sound drivers for Windows
> free of charge the next day. I had been under the impression that MS were
> not at all easy to deal with but, given the number of calls their technical
> support lines must get, I was impressed.

I am surprised to hear that Microsoft is getting better with their customer
support; they used to be like the phone company.  Their attitude was
  "We don't care -- We're Microsoft -- We don't have to...".

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