Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!tiger!gpsteffler From: gpsteffler@tiger.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Steffler) Subject: Re: Microsoft products Message-ID: <1990May29.212202.10871@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Summary: bunsun burner Sender: Glenn Steffler Organization: University of Waterloo References: <04206.AA04206@sosaria.imp.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 90 21:22:02 GMT Lines: 53 In article <04206.AA04206@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes: > >A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to Microsoft Corp. in West Germany, asking them >if they had any plans to produce software for the Amiga. The answer was what I >expected - no. Why should a company which has market share in many major categories on an architecture that has an installed base of 20+ million capable machines bother to expend resources on the Amiga? >So far so bad. Yesterday, I installed WinWords (Word for Windows) on a 386. After >I had to do it 3 times because of memory troubles or false mouse drivers (it seems >you can't install another mouse driver - you have to do the whole thing again) Ever try acid...it'll help you configure your system even better... (mabe you have a different mouse that is not immediately recognizable to the setup program, and then all you have to do is place the device driver disk in the floppy drive and presto!) >I started the program and couldn't help laughing. >If you pull down a menu using the keyboard, not the mouse, and then change to >another window using the cursor keys, it takes about 1 second to refresh the >screen (erase the old menu and draw the new one) :-) I've never noticed that...but I guess doing such esoteric things as using the keyboard controls for a menu are above me. Windows Word is quite possibly the finest word processor for the PC...which would place it several generations above any current Amiga word processor. >Microsoft had better produce WinWord for the Amiga 3000. There at least it wouldn't >take 1 second to refresh the screen. It would be such a son of a gun to program on the Amiga...I fail to see how they would recoop their investment... They have already set up a very neat system where code is shared across architectures (MAC,OS/2,DOS) that allows for releases on the major platforms very close to each other...the Amiga would be a very difficult platform to provide for...not too much for a company with MS's resources, but I think the Amiga does fine with the current software vendors anyway...Microsoft would be an invaluable addition...but I ain't gonna happen. >------------------------------------ >Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com >"Justice is the possession and doing >of what one is entitled to" - Platon >------------------------------------ Justice is a good handgun...at least in the US it is. ---- Co-Op Scum (Name withheld by stupidity)