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In message news.rrnet.com> <ckno01-1707951413260001@ugln1.cs.auckland.ac.nz> - 
mjwills@socs.uts.edu.au (Matthew John Wills) writes:
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:>Craig Knox (ckno01@cs.auckland.ac.nz) wrote:
:>
:>: >         OK. . .  Tell me this. . .  What is so damned bad about 
:>: > Microsoft?  That's all that I want to know. . .  Sure, they wrote 
:>: > Windows, which sucks, but what's wrong with them as a company?  Why does 
:>: > everybody hate them so much?  Jealousy does weird things to people. . .
:>: >         I guess I'm just a social Darwinist who believes in survival of 
:>: > the fittest. . .  Life isn't fair and neither is business. . .
:>
:>:          I agree totally.  When these people who like to put down MS come
:>: up with an OS that does better than windows then I might actually pay
:>: attention to them.  Does it give them some sort of ego boost, or is it the
:>: current "cool thing" to do?  How many of them have written any program
:>: that is reasonably good, (I'm not talking about how good it is in their
:>: own over inflated opinions either.)
:>
:>I think the point is that there are many good alternatives to Windows out there
:>and that Windows (through bad business practice and good marketing) won
:>anyway... I could cite X Window (at least UNIX is a REAL Operating System),
:>Workbench (Amiga may be dead, but it was still MILES ahead of PCs) and
:>Macintosh to name just a few... Macintosh made an inferior hardware platform
:>do inferior things - and made quite a bit of money doing it... Lets hope it is
:>all fixed with Windows 95 (unlikely!!!)...
:>

Anybody remember CPM86  concurrent dos, it came out the same time as MSDOS 
but was multitasking full screen apps. But it was $250 and MSdos was $49.00.




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