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In article <stephenj.91.00292182@mindspring.com>, stephenj@mindspring.com (Stephen Johnston Jr.) writes:
|> In article <40etng$1dc@datamagic.com> kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
|> >From: kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky)
|> >Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
|> >Date: 10 Aug 1995 23:35:28 -0700

[...]
|> 3. The fact that regardless of the method "someone" could find out what they
|> are doing is a strong reason not to do it. MS knows that there are very
|> powerful companies that would like to BURY them. IBM with a copy of Win95
|> could find anything they needed to in a fairly short time. If I was IBM I
|> would search every possible avenue to exploit something like this and then be
|> very sorry that there was a "leak" to the media before we could inform MS that
|> they had "accidentally" included this in Win95.

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Now that that's out of the way :)

The best thing any competitor of MS can do is write a better OS (OS/2 Warp *IS* BTW)
and get the stupid hardware vendors to stop pre-installing MS stuff.  Ever tried buying
a PC without a preinstalled OS and $900.00 of *FREE* software that you don't want?

Additionally, Mr. Gates is probably his own worst enemy and will undoubtedly be
the biggest long-term factor in the failure of MS.

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