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Article #66594Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
From: John Westerdale
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00
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Dave Althoff wrote: > = > : Martin Ettest=F8l <mart...@online.no> wrote in article > : <369.6962T...@online.no>... > : > > [Name a Microsoft] product ... better than its competitors > : > > in some real and substantial fashion. > : > > : > Actually, Bill Gates made one good program back in the late seventi= es, > : > Microsoft Visual Basic, for several 8bit cpu's. This was how he sta= rted > : > earning money. Then I guess inertia overtook him, and thus, everyth= ing > : > he has "done" after that is nothing but pure crap. > = > Well, there is a good example of what Micro$oft is actually good at. > There seem to be two Microsofts. One Microsoft produces really good -- stuff deleted --- > touch a key while waiting for the splash-screen to time out. It is a n= ice > program and it does neat things, but it looks like it was written by th= e > same team that wrote the latest version of Microsoft Word. > = > Now if we could just get a version of Windows that ran like some of the= > Good Microsoft stuff, maybe people wouldn't be so quick to jump all ove= r > Gates & Co.... Why would he/they ever write a good O.S.They would be outa business? = They just want to fix barely fast enough to appear to be progressive. The = multitude of most MS o.s's are more like applications, O.S. functions are largely hidden by obfuscative GUI's and 'internal' settings.... just my H.O. = If you want a good (and rational) os, have linux ported to it!!! ? ---------------------------------------------------------- +How Can I Do Today, When I Havent Planned for yesterday?+ =3D John Westerdale - aka wes...@nji.com, @various.places =3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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From: John Westerdale <wes...@nji.com> Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft! Date: 1997/02/01 Message-ID: <E4y192.Ar2@nonexistent.com> X-Deja-AN: 213782643 x-nntp-posting-host: blackbear.nji.com references: <5c0r63$8ng@web.nmti.com><32DB2690.3533@geocities.com> <32DBDCD4.2C3@student.umass.edu> <01bc0257$9af3a3c0$7d80abcf@mike> <5c0r63$8ng@web.nmti.com> <01bc072f$9490b4a0$60fce8c7@mans19.ios.com> <5c3c3p$f44@dallas-ms-001.novare.net> <369.6962T1195T2124@online.no> <01bc0987$e6fb6000$0d60ed0a@bobslaptop.nlic.com> <5cttra$itl@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us> x-nntp-posting-user: westerj x-trace: 854832851/12851 organization: Long Pond Industries mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviation.simulators,comp.sys.palmtops x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.1.17 i586) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit