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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (22456)	1/21/1999 3:00:00 PM
From: Marcelo Magnasco	Respond to of 24154

In my view this was also anticompetitive in result. Windows used to be easy to make dual boot with alternative operating systems on the same computer, as I recall it. That feature went away, hurting alternative OS, even though it made it more difficult even to use with other MSFT OS, and hard on MSFT-only developers. Why? Well, it's rude, needlessly rude. Sounds like MS to me alright. They are always rude if they can. Trashing any alternate OS's partition, trashing your Netscape bookmarks, trashing your Netware IP stack... They just love to make life miserable for anyone who chooses their competition. There's no other company that would survive the negative impact of so many instances of rudeness. Except, perhaps, Intel, who for a decade was rude to every single person who wanted to divide floating point numbers. (FP division bug in 8087, a temperature sensitive FP division bug in 80287, and wasn't there another FP division problem before pentium1 ? 486DX2?) Why division? Pffft.