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From: amherasimchu@amherst.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
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Date: 28 Jun 90 11:35:25 GMT
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In article <1990Jun27.180718.3155@portia.Stanford.EDU>, aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
> 
> It's also funny that the only thing that most Windows-bashers have to say
> about Windows is that it isn't Mac-like.  I mean, what a revelation...

It, internally, is also not Mac-like. To my knowledge.  It's a GUI running
on DOS platform.  I'd compare that to typing a book on a type writer then using
OCR to read it into a word processor.  why not just buy the word processor
from the start?
 
>>keep thinking that if Microsoft runs as fast as it can, it can beat us to
>>the finish line. As though Apple were standing still or something...
> 
> Why would Microsoft want to "beat" Apple to any finish line?  Microsoft makes
> software, Apple, computers.  Microsoft sells a lot of Mac software, and unless
> you think this is only to provide a good beta-testing arena or help fund
> Windows development, Microsoft has no reason to "beat" Apple.  I've never 
> understood why so many Mac users are anti-Windows.  I would think that, if
> Windows provides a much larger user base than the Mac ever could, then Mac
> software developers would benefit from being able to sell stuff to Windows
> users as well.  Perhaps this is why Microsoft is doing so well in the Mac
> world...

Microsoft happened to be there first.  From my knowledge, programming in
the Windows world is *not* like programming in the Mac world.  Our programmers
are looking into it right now, and while we do want to port, we can already
see that we'll probably have to dish out loads of money for a programmer who
knows Windows inside and out, because we won't have the time to do it 
ourselves.  This is tense because I would rather have our programmers 
write the code and interface to stay consistent as much as possible to the
way we work and structure internal algorythyms, etc.  So it is not as
beneficial as you might claim.  Beneficial yes, heaven, no.

If you have info on Windows 3.0 and programming, converting software from
the Mac into, I'd be happy to listen.
 
> Aaron Wallace

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