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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 478.53-1.0%Dec 12 9:30 AM EST
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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (791)4/27/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
That whole quote is absurd. What "technical information needed to write software that runs on Windows" is not available to anybody off the street?

Actually, quite a lot. I had occassion to do some TAPI programming recently and discovered that it is pretty much undocumented. This summer, three years after Tapi 1.4, a good book is coming out on the subject, but everything out there now is a parrot of the MS developer docs which are quite thin. Very thin.

When you get higher up, it gets worse.

For instance, if you were a browser maker and you wanted to allow people to use YOUR browser instead of internet explorer in Windows 98, how would you do this without microsoft's cooperation? The threat here is, 98 ships and has IE integrated. You don't submit, and you can't compete, because only we know the APIs that allow the integration of IE in the core OS.

I can promise you that you won't find a book covering that subject!

Dragonfly
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