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To: TigerPaw who wrote (47032)	6/20/2000 1:08:00 PM
From: david_si	Respond to of 74651

"Once windows came out, Microsoft no longer published complete interfaces to the OS." This is absolutely bogus, and everyone knows it. Besides, all you have to do is run oleview.exe on any COM object to get the interface information. "They did publish compilers that used the new interfaces." Bull. I work on the team, and I know. "Sometimes there was 3 or more updates to the compilers which were released in a years time just to keep running on the platform." Wrong! Then how on earth did the previously released compilers keep running with the platform? These releases were called "service packs," or bug fixes. "Once there was no major competition Microsoft changed it's compilers such that they will not produce code for any platform but Windows" HA! If you use Borland's compiler for Windows you only get Windows code. You expect an x86 compiler to produce code for the Alpha processor? I use Visual C++ to write applications for Unix all the time. If you look at magazine reviews, you'll see that the Visual C++ compiler KILLED Borland in terms of compile speed and speed of generated code. MS won fair and square. Your post contained nothing but false information. David

To: TigerPaw who wrote (47032)	6/20/2000 2:00:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Actually Borland is still around. They changed their name to Inprise. Did you know that after Delhphi came out in 1995 and cleaned VB's clock that MSFT then pushed hard and hired programming expert Anthony Bay away from Borland with a $1million bonus. That didn't matter though. Inprise is still making tools and may clean MSFT's clock again this summer with the cross-platform Delphi. From what I remember Bay became a muckety-muck at MSNBC. It is interesting in any event that 'Borland' has consistently out-produced MSFT in tools even though MSFT has interal access to their own OSes and Inprise does not. andy