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From: cjeffery@optima.UUCP (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 Windows 3.0 comparisons
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Date: 8 May 91 22:58:39 GMT
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In article <9105061352.AA20328@smithkline.com> wood%lavc3.dnet@smithkline.COM (Bill Wood, SB Pharmaceuticals R&D, 215-270-5163) writes: 
>I believe that MS Windows provides a rich, standard
>environment, and that as it becomes available on faster machines and 
>richer operating systems, the flood of applications for it will be amazing.

I believe MS Windows provides a rich, NonStandard, Proprietary Money-Grubbing
environment, where an attempt has been made to prevent/exclude freeware,
public-domain, research, and hobbyist software authors from developing
anything that might slow the sale of expensive MS applications.

The flood of overpriced, underpowered MS Windows applications is already
amazing.  Anyone predicting so far into the future as to a time when Windows
will run on non *86 architectures and richer operating systems is a True
oracle.  We have no indication that it will EVER be less than a Proprietary
Money-Grubbing environment, no matter what machines and OS's it runs on.

Too bad, because aside from the ridiculous memory management (which
has violently slowed the "flood" of applications) Windows provides a
nice programming interface, as C-based GUI's go.

While I am on my soapbox, isn't it ironic that MS rose to stardom on the
strength (and low cost) of BASIC -- the software development tool of the
people -- and once it got where it is, it has done everything it can to
monopolize all software development and sales in the entire micro industry.
Whew!  If I want to develop widely-used software for PC's, I guess I better
go apply there, eh?  (Gee, maybe they won't take me after this tirade...)