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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Porter who wrote (26118)	11/23/1997 8:29:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583865

Steve, it's fine to question a person's opnion about this or that but making general insults is not just juvenille, it's against the terms of use and I suggest that you read them -- ask around if you think I am kidding about that, this isn't the anything goes public insult service. As for Microsoft's promise to port DCOM to other platforms, they made the same promise about their Application Foundation Classes and those who bought their story are sorely regretting it today. If you are talking about the hobbled version of DCOM they introduced for Windows 95 a couple of weeks ago -- the one that crashes Microsoft Fax, won't work with Visio, causes PowerPoint to fail -- then we can say that DCOM runs in some form or another on two platforms. Was it a casual effort on Microsoft's part to demonstrate that DCOM could run on more platforms than NT? Did they manage to get it on Windows 95 without some very important comprimses in the area of security? Did they port DCOM from NT to Windows 95 without breaking thousands of applications not to mention some of their own key products? Do they support the number one desktop platform? 1. NO. 2. NO. 3. NO. 4. NO. They released a version fo DCOM for Windows 95 when? Less than a montha ago. Does this prove anything about my comments? Not as fas as I'm concerned. Try and offer something concrete and less personal next time. I