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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Support (or lack of)
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.003034.26148@amd.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 00:30:34 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.132321.24161@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West) writes:
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|  On the other hand, if you discover a bug in a Microsoft product, all technical
|support will do is say "Yes, that's a bug".  They will not:
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|1)  Give patches to fix that bug.

This is not always true. I ran into a bug with Word 5.0 and Sun's PC-NFS
and MS sent me a floppy with a patch on it.

PC Week says there are bugs in C 6.0 and MS is coming out with 6.1.
I think what you're supposed to do in the meantime is turn off the
optimizations.

Did you suppose that maybe the bugs are too serious to simply patch?

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