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To: Dell-icious who wrote (8747)	6/29/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Hi Dell, >>You really know very little about the OS business. Particularly the consumer OS business and it shows.<< I guess we're all entitled to our opinions. >>The first requirement that any consumer has when he/she buys a new OS is that it run all his/her old programs flawlessly. Try reverse engineering DOS, Win3.1 and Windows 95 and Windows 98 with 30 programmers and come back to me in a year.<< Yes, i thought of backward compatibility when I wrote the original, but didn't bother to mention it. For a new OS to replace Windows, perhaps it will have to be 8 times as good, as Gilder wrote once. I don't know about the needs of other customers, but I don't need backward compatibility if everything is looking good going forward. It sounds like I must have touched a sore spot, or you're such a little person yourself that you feel the need to belittle others. Myself, I get tired of the old, "don't dare try to usurp MSFT's holy OS position... you don't have a chance..." BS FWIW Andy

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