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To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3452)	11/6/1997 4:20:00 AM
From: Mike Mackovitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Klaus, read that a little closer... we're talking engineering competence, not marketing competence. Microsoft's OS is good enough that it crashes or hangs every other time I try to use it. Microsoft's marketing is good enough to make people think that that's acceptable. Unfortunately, SGI's marketing sucks and the company is left to give in to what everyone thinks they want. --MikeM

To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3452)	11/6/1997 5:32:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

>>Sure. Then pray tell me why the loads of cash at Microsoft haven't >>brought us a better Microsoft OS sooner, if engineering competence >> can be bought? >Well.. seems it created a good enough OS to give SGI a run for their >money. Well enough marketed. Well enough engineered is another story; and it took Microsoft ages to get it even to this level of 'competence'. If engineering competence could be bought, NT would have been half decent well before its 4.0 version.