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- From: gday@sashimi.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day)
- Subject: Re: DISMANTLE MICROSOFT (Was Re: Industry market shares)
- In-Reply-To: boutell@isis.cshl.org's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:10:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <GDAY.93Jan26115005@sashimi.inde.bc.ca>
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- Organization: INDE Electronics, Inc.
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:50:05 GMT
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- _______________________________________________________________________________
- gordon day, inde electronics, +1-403-430-1446.
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- >>>"tom" == Tom Boutell <boutell@isis.cshl.org> writes:
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- tom> Boy howdy I tellya, Microsoft is evil evil evil, yup.
-
- Well, as these things go, I would say yes.
-
- tom> Of course, never mind that for a company without competition to
- tom> worry about, they have a strange tendency to keep producing new
- tom> and better products.
-
- E.g. MS-DOS 5.0 -- Just as _good_ as all the previous versions, I
- guess. Mind you they've only had, what, over 10 years to get
- filenames longer that 8 characters, a flat memory model, simple
- multitasking. And don't even talk to me about their slow buggy window
- system.
-
- tom> But as it is, they're quite competitive and they're consistently
- tom> improving their products. Some of us have our beefs with their
- tom> compilers, but it's hard to deny that Excel is the most powerful
- tom> spreadsheet yet built.
-
- Why is it hard to deny that? Have you seen Improv?
-
- tom> I agree that a split of Microsoft might be beneficial to the
- tom> industry, but I hope it won't be done ham-fistedly, with the
- tom> backing of those who "have it in" for Microsoft. Software is an
- tom> unusual market: it's one in which the U.S. holds both a
- tom> production and a technological lead. Microsoft, as the spearhead
- tom> of that market, is a significant national asset, and if we do
- tom> break it up we'd best do it in such a way as not to ruin its
- tom> competitiveness.
-
- I think that the point is that Microsoft is stifling development in
- the o/s, compiler, and user interface markets because of their
- stranglehold on the naive public. And I, for one living in the rest
- of the world would _love_ to see Microsoft lose some of it's
- "competitiveness".
-
- Ta,
-
- g.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
- gordon day, inde electronics, +1-403-430-1446.
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