Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site prism.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!prism!matt From: matt@prism.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Terrible service from Microsoft Message-ID: <7700014@prism.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 10:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: prism.7700014 Posted: Tue Sep 24 10:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 08:17:34 EDT References: <433@aero.UUCP> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:aero:-43300:prism:7700014:000:1342 Nf-From: prism!matt Sep 24 10:57:00 1985 > /* 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Landau {cca, ihnp4, inmet, mit-eddie, wjh12}... Mirror Systems, Inc. ...mirror!prism!matt Cambridge, MA (617) 661-0777 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------