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Article #1205Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft
From: John H. Kim
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:32
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:32
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fwbent@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Bent) writes: >In article <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Andrew Zaitsev) writes: >> >>It looks like mechanisms of changing the historical documents described >>by George Orwell in "1984" would be very useful for Microsoft. >I cannot see anything that Bill Gates said (that you quoted) that is >inaccurate or misleading.... Well, I have the OS/2 Notebook by Microsoft Press. Here are some Bill Gates quotes: "Another strong message is the high level of commitment that our companies [IBM and Microsoft] have to OS/2 ..." "Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2." "Most users of high-end applications will be using a 386 and therefore want OS/2 2.0" In all fairness, B. Gates did hint pretty strongly that MS's support for OS/2 was dependent on how well it sold. -- John H. Kim | (This space to be filled when I jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever uunet!jarthur!jokim | to use as a disclaimer)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!jarthur.claremont.edu!jokim From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim) Subject: Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft Message-ID: <1992Aug27.213200.19418@muddcs.claremont.edu> Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 References: <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> <BtnCw4.u7@math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:32:00 GMT Lines: 30