On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:38:54 -0500, "Swingman" wrote:


"mac davis" wrote

How many of us, beginning with Dos, have been unpaid beta testers for M$?
Can we get a show of hands? lol

I once liked _most_ of what MSFT did, and still think that, in general, the
ultimate impact they have had on "personal computing" since the DOS days is
more on the plus side than the negative ... but not necessarily the way they
_did_ it.

That said, MSFT, like most corporations these days, appears to be currently
full of blithering idiots, .


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IMHO the single best thing that Gates & Co. did was make everyone
speak the same language.

Anyone who remembers trying to pass business files back and forth
before de facto standardization by msft doesn't miss those days even a
little bit.

Please email me if you disagree and I will get back to you with an
attachment - written in WordStar 1.




Regards, Tom.

Thos. J. Watson - Cabinetmaker
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
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