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Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft

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From: Andrew Zaitsev
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:44
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Most of the previous posts already include my reasons for
hating microsoft.
I decided to post, because yesterday I had a new experience,
that even made my feelings deeper.
I went to the bookstore to see if there are any new books on OS/2
and I was most surprised to find on the most visible place OS/2
book published by ... Microsoft Press. First couldn't believe my
eyes, I thought that the Evil Empire is changing if they release
books on the product they used to boycott ...Well, I was wrong -
the book was published in 1990, before the Great Split.
Anyway, I browsed thru the book and in the section called OS/2 2.0
(in 1990!) there was an interview with Bill Gates. He sounded very
persistive, telling reporter that OS/2 is the system of the future
and that Microsoft is not going to incorporate sophisticated multi-
tasking in Windows, leaving it to OS/2, and above all, he confirmed
that Windows is just an upgrade path to OS/2.
 
It looks like mechanisms of changing the historical documents described
by George Orwell in "1984" would be very useful for Microsoft.
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