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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (63922)	12/27/2001 7:14:24 PM
From: sandeep	Respond to of 74651

From the first link: Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows. "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run." DOS and windows are different products. Also, my experience is that Lotus123 versions ran on all DOS products. Do you have contrary experience? Why do you just believe folklore? The second link: In the early 80's, Microsoft's Multiplan lost out to Lotus 1-2-3 in the marketplace. According to one Microsoft programmer, a few of the key people working on DOS 2.0 had a saying at the time that "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run." I don't know if this was a disgruntled employee. Do you? or even whether such an employee really existed. He goes on to say that only 3-4 people knew about it. It is not clear if this was corporate mentality. Also, DOS 2.0 was hardly a product worth complaining about. I doubt too many people worked on it. A young company can do many wrong things. That doesn't mean jack 18 years after the fact. FINALLY the last article: In the 1980’s, people joked, "MS DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run" , implying that Microsoft intended to create a platform incompatible with Lotus products People used to JOKE!