RE: Yet another reason to hate Ms

Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:31:37 -0800


Tim, I'll bet you a case of the microbrew of your choice that MSFT OSes
are dominant two years from today. I'll even give you 2 to 1 odds. If
you're willing to take this bet, you should really consider getting the
prescription checked on your reality-distortion glasses.

- dan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: CobraBoy [SMTP:tbyars@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 12:21 PM
>To: FoRK@xent.w3.org
>Subject: Re: Yet another reason to hate Ms
>
>At 12:06 PM -0800 1/28/97, Rohit Khare wrote:
>>> nuff said...
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>
>>Even with all those definitive features, it's still a third-rate OS.
>>MulltiFinder was ahead of its time, but that was the last respectable OS
>>innovation (modulo VM), and that was ten years ago. Sys7 and Win95 are
>>almost at parity, but NT and Unix are still light-years ahead.
>>
>>I agree 100% with the Byte analysis. But I wouldn't confuse user-level
>>features with OS excellence.
>>
>>RK
>
>Gee I guess that is why NeXTStep is the new OS....
>
>Tim
>
>p.s. just for the record after about 7 Rosarita's last night, I went
>officially on record.
>
>"The end has started for Ms, the pendulum is gathering momentum and
>will
>start to swing the other way, as it always does."
>
>What NS/OS/Mac whatever doesn't do it, Linux will.
>
>Tim
>
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