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Microsoft - The <b>Evil</b> empire
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1225 kal - no smoke - the strengths and weaknesses of mainframes are not obvious trudedog-6/11/1998
1224 Exactly. Though, It's just good sometimes to give the other point of view tKal-6/11/1998
1223 Word on the street here in Redmond is that Microsoft has vowed, no Java supportDragonfly-6/11/1998
1222 <i>Bill and MSFT have never shown any reluctance to jump on whatever bus Kal-6/11/1998
1221 Bill and MSFT have never shown any reluctance to jump on whatever bus was movinrudedog-6/11/1998
1220 >>Well, what prevents MS from writing Office in Java? Bill's arrogaKal-6/11/1998
1219 <i>Excellent article</i> Interestin article. Unfortunately, there Robert Winchell-6/11/1998
1218 Excellent article upside.com upside.com upside.com <i> "How bigPink Minion-6/11/1998
1217 Robert, >>Unless the network is down. When was the last time the netwonommedeguerre-6/7/1998
1216 to all, vote zdnet.comKal-6/7/1998
1215 <i>Obviously its not a Dell, Micron, Compaq etc. I recently bought a new Robert Winchell-6/7/1998
1214 you can buy cpq with no OS pretty easily, or with SCO Unix, OS/2, Win95, NT, orrudedog-6/7/1998
1213 <i> Uh, there was nothing on my PC when I bought it. Clean disk </i>drmorgan-6/6/1998
1212 <i>Yes, the practice was illegal and it has stopped.</i> Not compDragonfly-6/5/1998
1211 Robert - That's exactly what CPQ did - and MSFT backed down. According to rudedog-6/5/1998
1210 <i>but you have to concede my point. The vast majority of the PCs out theRobert Winchell-6/5/1998
1209 <i>I kind of like that paradigm. I like being anywhere in the world and hRobert Winchell-6/5/1998
1208 <i>The practice you are referring to (per-processor licensing) was barredDragonfly-6/4/1998
1207 but you have to concede my point. The vast majority of the PCs out there runniDragonfly-6/4/1998
1206 <i>The hardware manufacturer also - get this - wants you to give up yourPink Minion-6/4/1998
1205 <i>I don't know what crashes your OS. Could be a lot of things. I havPink Minion-6/4/1998
1204 Dragonfly - The practice you are referring to (per-processor licensing) was barudedog-6/4/1998
1203 <i>But then half your multimedia utilities tank.</i> Maybe half ofRobert Winchell-6/4/1998
1202 <i>Nope, they cannot. Not without paying Microsoft first. What was on thaRobert Winchell-6/4/1998
1201 >You can stop the explorer process and the OS runs along fine But then halJohn Mireley-6/4/1998
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