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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (108434)	4/28/2000 8:46:00 PM
From: Paul Ma	Respond to of 1570958

How about changing the header formats on every version of microsoft office so none of them are compatible with the previous versions. Forcing all corporations to update every release. I doubt it. I've worked at a company in the summer and they never used Office before, just Word Perfect and Lotus and some other software in Windows 3.1. Generalizing is wrong. It costs about 200-400 dollars to upgrade it and nobody buys the full version for $1000 every 3 years anyways, they upgrade. There was office 97 and now office 2000. that is around 3 years. That's a long time. It's quite clear microsoft leveraged windows to dominate with IE The radio companies should sue some car company for making their own radio! IE is part of the OS what's wrong with that. How about corrupting open standards like java to ruin interoperability and create windows only code. (same thing with vb script, so that netscape wouldn't function) Things that serve no possible benefit to the consumer except to force them to use only windows I shall assimilate you! (just kidding, but i don't know about java standards) Paul Ma, Friendly World Controller