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

To: Dave who wrote (67101)	4/11/2002 8:50:19 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

"by adding new Office features that don't work on Linux." To my knowledge Office was never designed to run on Linux. That someone makes the current versions of Office work on Linux, good for them. They reversed engineered someone elses existing product and cobbled/hacked something together that works somewhat. If the next version of Office introduces features and or API, that the Hack doesn't support then so what? The Hack will have to be updated. Office wasn't designed to work with the Hack. The new version will have to be reverse engineered and the Hack will have to be updated. Version after version... Such a hack is doomed to fail simply because is a hack, based on reverse engineering the Windows & Office products. Is it Apple's responsibility limit Quicktime's innovations\features\API to only the set that work on OpenQuicktime? Is it Apple's responsibility to limit Quicktime's innovations\features\API to only the set that work on OpenQuickTime? Why doesn't Apple design their Applications to run on Linux? You make silly accusations like that and dare to call yourself a developer?