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Subject: Re: What will be the position of Windows in 3, 4 years in the future?

Author: Robert Pawlak

Date: 18:08:40 12/07/99

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On December 06, 1999 at 19:45:02, Christophe Theron wrote:
>Linux is like a jewel in a piece of sh*t. Windows is a piece of sh*t in a jewel
>case. I like none of them.

You are a poet Christophe!

>I think there is a huge market for Linux, especially if you add a good MSDOS and
>Windows emulator (I have been unable to try them, too messy), and I hope it will
>evolve in the good direction. I will try it again, exactly as I have tried OS/2
>at least 5 times (installed it 5 times on different computer) before giving up.
>It took me 3 years to admit OS/2 was not satisfying. It was a disaster for me to
>see the end of this OS.
>

Well, I have been watching vmware. If they can get the mouse virtualization
fixed, it will really turn some heads I think. It's already pretty usable, but
setup of shared drives, etc. is still not as easy as it could be.

Incidentally, I saw today that there is another company that just released s
cross platform development library (not mainwin).

>
>
>    Christophe

Bob P.



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