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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
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Date: 9 Nov 90 19:34:24 GMT
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In article <4624@gara.une.oz.au> rjacobs@gara.une.oz.au ( ABRI) writes:
|IMHO the most blatant case of this is the
|promotion of OS/2. This is a product that has been promised for a longtime,
|but fails to deliver the goods. The market share of OS/2 is very small. Yet,
|journals like PC Magazine continue to devote regular columns and special
|feature articles to OS/2. Why does this occur when programs like Unix are 
|virtually ignored. As a multi-tasking operating system Unix on the PC is
|a better program and at a more evolved stage than OS/2. There are

Actually, OS/2 has more sophisticated technology than Unix.
But more important, compare the applications available for
OS/2 (especially when it has Windows compability but even
without it, you have Excel and Word for OS/2) and the
applications for Unix.

|Am I being picky or does Microsoft and Bill Gates have lots of friends
|who are in the sales, marketing, journalism and communication side of
|the computer business and more than willing to help Bill tell us how
|great Microsoft products are?

I think you don't understand what real users want. Namely: applications!

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