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Article #1142Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft
From: Andrew Zaitsev
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:44
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 It looks like mechanisms of changing the historical documents described by George Orwell in "1984" would be very useful for Microsoft.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!parsifal.umkc.edu!UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU!S947460 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft Message-ID: <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> From: S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Andrew Zaitsev) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:44:43 GMT Sender: root@parsifal.umkc.edu (Parsifal Administration) Organization: UM ST. LOUIS Lines: 19