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From: matt@prism.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Terrible service from Microsoft
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 10:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 10:57:00 1985
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> /* Written  4:37 pm  Sep 19, 1985 by pwv@vax1 in prism:net.micro.pc */
> 
> > From: sinclair@aero.ARPA (William S. Sinclair)
> > Is there any way we can put pressure on them to improve their service?
> 
> I wish.
> 
> /* End of text from prism:net.micro.pc */

Sure there is - stop buying their buggy, substandard, virtually
unsupported products, and innundate them with letters explaining that
until they improve their product support, you, your employer, and all of
your friends are boycotting all Microsoft products.  You'd be amazed what
serious market pressure can do (though I'll grant there's not much chance
of getting enough people involved to make a dent in Microsoft profits.)

In any case, for almost any Microsoft product (except DOS) there exists a
competing product that is as good or better.  For assemblers, I recommend
Pasm-86 from Phoenix Software Associates (Norwood, MA).  It's source code
compatible with MASM 3.01, assembles programs in half the time, and seems
to have many fewer bugs.

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