Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?

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From: Stephen Schimpf
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:27

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In article <1992Aug24.183216.18299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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>In a previous article, peters@CS.ColoState.EDU (eric peters) says:
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>>I realize that microsoft has the market cornered with DOS (no flames... 
>>I know OS/2 and DR-DOS are out there), and windows (I hate windows, but its
>>got nothing to do with who makes it... i don't care for macs for the same 
>>reason)....  but why is everyone so opposed to Microsoft?
>
>I have two gripes.
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>One is that they write cruddy, archane operating systems full of undocumented
>functions which thier own applications seem to know about and use.
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>The other is that they seem to concentrate on selling average to poor quality
>software to stupid micro computer users rather than making good stuff that
>sells itself.  (ms has made some good products, but they tend to be 
>the exceptions, not the rule.)

Word for Windows, Excel, Visual BASIC. Hmm. If this is "average to poor
quality" I'd *love* to see some great-quality software. I don't think
Microsoft can do no wrong, but I am happy with all of the MS software I
own. (Then again, I have to use UNIX at work, so anything I can run on my
PC seems wonderful).

Stephen

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