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To: Lewis Edinburg who wrote (3396)	11/11/1999 9:25:00 AM
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One of the things Microsoft did to Borland that was particularly nasty was by using the same extension for its IDE files. Borland first was using .dsw files. When VC 5 came out (I believe it was 5) MSFT started using .DSW files. Thus if a developer installed BC++ and built programs, each IDE file for each program had a .dsw extension. Then if the developer installed VC, they reassociated the extension with VC. So if a programmer tried to open the file based on the 'association, vc++ started up. And even worse, the dsw that msft made was simply a shell it didn't do anything significant. In VC6 the dsw file has meaning. I'm pretty sure this was a tactic of MSFT to drive borland compiler share into the ground. I'm primarily a c++ builder user now, even though i have VC6. Builder is very powerful, much more powerful and OO than for what VC6 provides.

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