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Subject: Re: M$ goes Chess?!?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 23:21:55 01/05/99

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On January 05, 1999 at 23:08:07, Richard Heldmann wrote:

>Microsoft is not innovative, never has been, never will be.  Please tell me when
>M$ had an original idea, not stolen/bought from someone else?  If you don't want
>chess to take two steps backward, pray they do not buy out Fritz, Junior or
>Rebel.  M$ does not write new code when it doesn't have to.  They never start
>from the ground up.  They would simply BUY out Fritz or Junior or Rebel, add
>their own standard crummy MS interface, put their name on it and rave how great
>it will be in the next future release.  Same old story.
>
>Richard Heldmann

Well, to tell you the truth, I cannot give you an example. However, I'm sure
some of the ex- or current Microsoft people can.

However, let me ask you a question. If Microsoft is so crummy, how come they are
squeezing Novell out of the server market and Netscape out of the Internet
market?

Quite frankly, I cannot complain about Microsoft. They revolutionized an
industry and there are millions of people employed world wide in that industry.
And it has fed me and my family for almost 5 years. The computer organization
that I worked for previous to that had better hardware and software than
Microsoft and let itself stagnate into oblivion.

One other thing, you mention that they never start from the ground up and act
like that is a bad thing. That is a good thing. Why start at the bottom when you
can start near the top?

Keep smiling :)

KarinsDad



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