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In article <3078@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes:
> 
> Looking back, Microsoft has been the other giant in the Macintosh software
> field, and its my feeling that they have taken advantage of their size in
> the Macintosh field to produce bad software.  In particular, their

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> release.  What other third party vendor could have survived and have a very
> sucessful product after a start like Word 3.00?  Does a company that can do
> something like this stifle competition?
> 
> Christopher Chow
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It is interesting to note the growing anti-Microsoft sentiment here, and in
other groups (ibm.pc, anc c).

Some people have even gone so far to state they won't use Microsoft products
in principle. Could it be that Microsoft's cavalier attitude, ("We're the
big guys here and what we say goes!") lousy user support for users that buy
less than $50K of products yearly, and things like the Silver Surfer
debacle could catch up to them ?
 
They are trying to play all the fields (Mac, IBM, Xenix) and as a result
they have just wound up with a lousy track record of buggy software. (Listen
to the MSC 5.0 discussion.) They have shown time and time again, that they
do what they want to do, and it doesn't necessarily coincide with the good of
the market, or the machines (certainly not the customer). And it seems that it
takes IBM, AT&T or Apple to even sway the path that they take.
 
-dragos

First there was MS-Clunk....NOW OS/Clunk, coming to a theater near you.
(You are in a room full of hot mist :-)
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