I realize that many younger guys don't understand why MS$ is so hated by so
many of us older guys.  Its because we saw, intimately, how MS$ managed to
flimflam so many people and get away with it.

A small gang of programmers disassembled Digital Research's CPM, tinkered
with it a little, then came up with IBM DOS 1.0. They then worked an odd
deal with IBM to compete against IBM with their own versions, that promised
to fix the problems they'd left in the first version. Once that pattern of
deception started, it became a pattern for the creation of vast wealth-
just create poor code with a little bit of razzle-dazzle, then blame the
resulting mess on everything and everyone else. It worked.

If you don't believe me, read the archives of early PC magazines. Watch how
MS$ handled the press, thru Win3.0, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinME (cringe)
then to Win2K and WinXP. Now, in all fairness, once the lawsuit was
enetered, MS$ finally began fixing the core, and Win2K and WinXP work
pretty well. But even Win2K with all shots (17 major and minor revisions)
doesn't match up to Linux on its best day.

I was forced by clients to endure Windows, and if I'd had the money I'd
shelled out for legal copies of Windows over the years, I'd have been able
to marry and divorce a few more wives.

So, for you youngsters that weren't there when it all happened, that's why
some of us hate MS$ so much.

--Bob


At 11:24 AM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > Oh you mean M$ has finally caught up with Borland, who have been
> > doing this
> > for years :))))

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