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To: DownSouth who wrote (6028)12/7/1997 2:30:00 PM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
NT was to be the next generation of OS/2 but as we all know, Windows 3.0 was so successful that Microsoft decided to go it's own way with it. Windows 3.0 just happened to coincide with reasonably priced hardware with performance that made Windows feasible. Moreover, Microsoft had a full slate of applications ready for it, surprise! Another key factor was that Windows was nothing more than a graphical shell on top of DOS so compatibility wasn't an issue. That's another story, what I want to point out is that NT has taken 10 years to get to where it is today, and next year they will have a multi-user version based on Citrix Systems technology -- Microsoft rarely develops anything of consequence on its own.

So after 12 years they have a small network OS that supports multiple users being logged in at the same time. Did they forget about that "feature" or did their myopic, technically challenged leader decide that opening up the system to multiple users was incompatible with his fat-client prison and futhermore, it would reduce revenues? Did Microsoft forget to make documents generated with the new version of Word incompatible with the old version? Microsoft isn't winning any customers that way and I don't think they will stand the test of competition.

BTW, Few if any Microsoft applications even entertained the thought of running over a network so Microsoft also has the challenge of decoupling it's apps into ActiveX components. MARK THESE WORDS: THAT'S NOT GOING TO FLY.

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