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Article #31333Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually
From: Duane Williams
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1988 16:37
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1988 16:37
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In <6766@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>, Chuck Lukaszewski writes: | First, Microsoft has acquired a deserved reputation in the last two years | that they rush products to the market. Corallary: the users get to debug | the product. This was certainly true with two major software releases: | Word 3.0 and Microsoft Mail.... | | Also in fairness to Microsoft, this reputation is recent and can be fixed, I | think. The reputation may be recent, but the misbehavior at Microsoft is not. The initial version of Microsoft Multiplan for the Mac in 1984 was recalled from dealers' shelves very soon after release. -- uucp: ...!seismo!cmucspt!me.ri.cmu.edu!dtw arpa: dtw@cs.cmu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!uwmcsd1!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dtw From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually Message-ID: <2746@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 19 Aug 88 16:37:05 GMT References: <7988@cup.portal.com> <5832@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1289@thumper.bellcore.com> <6766@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16