Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!alberta!edson!tic!ruiu From: ruiu@tic.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Help! Excel 1.00 vs. 1.05? (really MS v. everyone) Message-ID: <165@tic.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 03:10:12 EST Article-I.D.: tic.165 Posted: Sat Dec 5 03:10:12 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 22:03:57 EST References: <870049@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <1211@uhccux.UUCP> <2799@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <3078@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: U of A, E.E., Edmonton,Canada Lines: 42 Keywords: Microsoft bug MultiFinder Summary: MS is stepping on a lot of toes... In article <3078@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: > > Looking back, Microsoft has been the other giant in the Macintosh software > field, and its my feeling that they have taken advantage of their size in > the Macintosh field to produce bad software. In particular, their [deletion] > release. What other third party vendor could have survived and have a very > sucessful product after a start like Word 3.00? Does a company that can do > something like this stifle competition? > > Christopher Chow > | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35) | > | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | > | Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | It is interesting to note the growing anti-Microsoft sentiment here, and in other groups (ibm.pc, anc c). Some people have even gone so far to state they won't use Microsoft products in principle. Could it be that Microsoft's cavalier attitude, ("We're the big guys here and what we say goes!") lousy user support for users that buy less than $50K of products yearly, and things like the Silver Surfer debacle could catch up to them ? They are trying to play all the fields (Mac, IBM, Xenix) and as a result they have just wound up with a lousy track record of buggy software. (Listen to the MSC 5.0 discussion.) They have shown time and time again, that they do what they want to do, and it doesn't necessarily coincide with the good of the market, or the machines (certainly not the customer). And it seems that it takes IBM, AT&T or Apple to even sway the path that they take. -dragos First there was MS-Clunk....NOW OS/Clunk, coming to a theater near you. (You are in a room full of hot mist :-) -- Dragos Ruiu Disclaimer: My opinons are my employer's, I'm unemployed! UUCP:{ubc-vision,mnetor,vax135,ihnp4}!alberta!edson!tic!dragos!work (403) 432-0090 #1705, 8515 112th Street, Edmonton, Alta. Canada T6G 1K7 Never play leapfrog with Unicorns...