Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:55:10 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 12:39:27, Slater Wold wrote: >You have a point. But from what I understand, this is *NOT* the case. They are >actually making their own. > >Microsoft buying Chessbase makes NO sense, since Chessbase probably makes 1% of >what Microsoft does. Chessbase is worth what? A few million? Microsoft can >create their own software and run Chessbase out of the market for less money. > >There already is a Microsoft Chess program, that came with an add on pack a few >years ago. It wasn't very good, but it shows they had started on something. Chessbase can only dream of making 1% of what Microsoft makes per year. The chess program that went out in Windows Entertainment Pack 4 was contributed software, meaning that an employee (not me) wrote it and they shipped it. It was monumentally bad. bruce
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