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Re: Why MS hubris can be a bit annoying
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:26:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Asher Kobin wrote:

Seriously, I can't answer your question, but I can say that Microsoft's
awareness (and interest) of the Linux OS has increased dramatically, • although
it did take some time (we just needed to hire the right people)

No, you just needed to get a clue that not everyone likes MS practices
w.r.t. marketing and software development and some people are clever
enough to do something about it that may well threaten MS's
stranglehold. What's the old saying? "Dos isn't ready to ship until 123
is broken"...


I don't understand how your comment relates to what I said above.  Please
don't insult me saying that I don't have a clue.  I'm not a mindless Microsoft
drone.

One browser indeed. The world needs more than one browser. They all
should render the same but the way they look at everything else can and
should be the same.

This seems to support what I talked about in an earlier post about Microsoft
making the rederning engine part of the operating system.  Any developer can
create their own user interface.  Please take a look at NeoPlanet
(http://www.neoplanet.com/).  If you like IE but don't like the Micorosoft-
feel of it, try NeoPlanet.


- A happy MS stockholder and not so happy MS user

Today is a good day. +8.5

--
Asher



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  Re: Why MS hubris can be a bit annoying
 
(...) PMFJI, but most of the complaints lodged against MSIE (in this thread) have been about the *engine*, not the GUI wrapper. The issues discussed have been how IE interprets various HTML constructs, and how it renders them onto the display. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Why MS hubris can be a bit annoying
 
(...) I'm having trouble parsing the above paragraph taken as a whole in light of reality unless you're being deliberately mouthpieceish/obtuse. Here are a few tidbits. MS has a track record of doing things to screw other companies over. It goes (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)  

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(...) No, you just needed to get a clue that not everyone likes MS practices w.r.t. marketing and software development and some people are clever enough to do something about it that may well threaten MS's stranglehold. What's the old saying? "Dos (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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