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To: rudedog who wrote (28280)	2/24/2000 10:57:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) of 64865

That understanding is incorrect. NT was never included... Waitasecond. You're sounding like a M$ attorney. First of all, I didn't say "NT". I said 'desktop OS with integrated browser'. M$ changes the names of their products freely. That doesn't exempt them because 'nobody ever said anything about a product called THIS'. Microsoft changed NT5 to W2K and now they're hawking a desktop version to consumers. It's got some win9x code and an integrated browser, right? Corel has a stable of engineers who's job it is to reverse engineer Windows and sleuth down the APIs just to come up with an 'office' product that can be competitive. To say that the APIs are documented appropriately runs in sharp contrast to the labor of a lot of folks who have to hack backwards into the M$ OS just to be able to compete with the monopolist in the application space. Why *shouldn't this shift to W2K? Some basic sense of fair play? W2K is the current incarnation of the M$ moving target. We all know what this is about. It's about to be remedied. -JCJ

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