Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!gordonl
From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <53686@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 19:11:31 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Microsoft is working on a major upgrade to DOS and I'd like to solicit
input from the "power user" communitiy.  I've never met a programmer who
didn't think that they could have "done it better" with regards to someone
else's product, so here's an opportunity to enlighten us.

Please note that the DOS operating system has to remain "DOS" in the sense
that Microsoft already has a strategy for a high end OS which requires that
programs be rewritten - i.e., OS/2.  So our next major release needs to
continue to run existing DOS programs and whatever new features it has, it
must offer those features to existing programs.   Or, the new features
must be expressed in utilities and programs which ship with the system.
An example of this later would be a screen and menu oriented replacement
for the CONFIG.SYS file.  

So, if you've ever wished that DOS was better in some way (and who hasn't?),
email your input to me at

	uunet!microsoft!gordonl

Mailers willing, I'll acknoledge all mail.  Depending upon volume and time
I may not have time to reply at length, though.


	thanks

	gordon letwin
	microsoft