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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (12960)	12/4/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Not true Charles. You may be confusing a beta version and a bug with something that Microsoft shipped, or you may be trying to spread misinformation. I seem to remember hearing about a beta bug at one point that resulted in incorrect math for a version that never shipped. I suppose that's nothing compared to the version of Sun's compiler that copied Caffeinemark byte code, violating the copyright, to optimize the benchmark away and produce an unbelievable score. Problem is that the optimization actually optimized away legitimate code as well, breaking apps. Of course, the developer of Caffeinemark noticed the violation and went public. Sun first denied the allegation, then admitted they were "experimenting with advanced optimization" and removed the illegal code. Let's see, honest bug in beta that had nothing to do with perf vs cheating hack that when fixed returned Sun's VM to its previous losing score. Boy, I don't know. Maybe a Microsoft basher should jump in with a little religious diversion before someone actually has to respond to that. God forbid anyone would admit the truth that Sun couldn't compete so they sued. Have a nice day.