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From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
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Subject: Re: end of Microsoft printer software effort -- bad news for TrueType?
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Date: 16 Jun 91 00:39:56 GMT
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In article <CRUM.91Jun15104010@alicudi.usc.edu> crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
>Microsoft canceled its printer software development effort, according to
>an article I read yesterday (using the Company News section of Prodigy which
>uses Dow Jones News Retrieval service).  The article mentioned neither
>TrueType nor Apple, but it did say that the Microsoft effort failed to make
>inroads into territory held by Adobe PostScript.
>
Do you think that this might be Microsoft's retribution to the proposed
IBM/Apple "Bash MicroSoft" Alliance?  Since TrueType is hardly dead, as it
was just born, it's hard to say that it's not making inroads.

Just conjecture,
Owen

Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu
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