Author: Don Dailey
Date: 17:40:06 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 14:06:05, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >On January 05, 1999 at 08:13:32, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On January 05, 1999 at 03:45:13, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >> >>>I recently met a former Microsoft department head, who is now a chess coach and >>>using many of the availble playing programs, databases & tutorials. What he >>>told me I found truly amazing! He said that the currently availble programs >>>were from a programming point of view rather unsophisticated and trivial in >>>design. > >How could he make such a statement without seeing the source code? I doubt that >this is indeed the case. the programs that exist today are very sophisticated. >Perhaps their interfaces leave some things to be desired, but this is a metter >of personal taste. > > > > He suggested that if Microsoft (or other large software maker), decided >>>to get involved in creating these things, the results would (or at least could), >>>blow away the currently existing things in the marketplace. "Blow away" from microsofts point of view probably means they would market it a lot better and it would be pretty and flashy. I seriously doubt he is talking about performance, this is not an issue with Microsoft. - Don
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