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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mozek who wrote (46731)	6/15/2000 4:22:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

My understanding of GEOworks is that it was put down by MS in a way apart from quality winning out. It;s not misinformation. That's just my understanding. I know that it ran a well designed GUI in a very small environment. I just know that people who ran it, liked it. --- My misinformation extends to having extensive experience trying to get Windows to work as advertised, primarily in a comm environment. I had a full array of tools, fossil drivers, memory managers, high and low level programmers help me discover that Windows sucked and was inferior to everything when it came to A: communications and B: multitasking. Multitasking communications (ie BBS)? Forget about it. To say Win 3.1x did that (obviating other environments) is just nuts. NOBODY ran a full time multinode BBS under Windows (or a full time single node BBS). Desqview worked. Microsoft bought up QEMM for 3.1x and desqview disappeared? --- I don't know enough about the DOS conflicts other than the misinformation that I read. I think a large part of that was the misinformation brought to light in the Caldera suit, which included the misinformation of internal MS memoranda and subsequent settlement. --- Hey, I have an idea. Why not PUBLISH the full set of MS APIs in context? Why not fully document the crap so that 'facts' like "DR-DOS never supported the full set of APIs" could be obvious beacons of truth against the anti-MS propaganda of so much 'misinformation'? -JCJ