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Re: (fairly minor) bug in Microsoft C V6

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From: Steve Resnick
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1990 20:02
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In article <1829@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu writes:
>P.S., Does anybody else out there resent being patronized, belittled, and
>disbelieved when they try to report a bug to Microsoft Technical Support?
>

Yes and no. Almost every time I have talked to Microsoft, I ended up with
some idiot on the other side of the phone. As an example I presented some
code to them which as a TSR under DOS worked great until QuickBASIC was
running. I sent them .ASM source and said: This needs to be assembled and 
linked as a .COM file. The response was: The resulting .EXE crashes. I 
told them to run it through EXE2BIN and they said what's that?

With that sort of mentality, I can only laugh - It's tough to be belittled by
a moron. The one time I talked to somebody with intelligence, I got very 
straight forward answers (He was quickly moved to another department!)

Cheers!
Steve
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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: (fairly minor) bug in Microsoft C V6
Keywords: Microsoft C V6, bug
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.200253.8547@Octopus.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 90 20:02:53 GMT
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