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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question 3: How's Commodore doing?
Keywords: Microsoft, Amiga, Commodore, Sales
Message-ID: <24733@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 18:06:43 GMT
References: <2321@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <2321@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek) writes:
>   There was a little talk at a month or so ago about Microsoft's  plans
>for  the  Amiga.
>   As I see it, if Commodore fails, it will be a nail on the coffin  for
>the  big  market  hopes.

Well, I keep hearing about hopes for Microsoft products for the Amiga, but
as far as I'm concerned, Microsoft can stay on other machines.

Witness AmigaBasic, QuickBasic, Microsoft 'C', & their utilities.
Pretty poor software to me. Maybe I just do things differently :^), but
any time I have to work with Microsoft products, I end up spending
enormous amounts of time getting around incompatibilites and bugs that
I just don't encounter anywhere else. It's simply like the incomparable
frustration of trying to work with misdesigned or broken mechanical
tools where one spends more time fixing the tool than working on the
project.

With the problems I encounter on a routine basis with their products, I
am really amazed they have the audacity to go commercial with them.

There, I feel better now. (Need examples? I have plenty of them)

Disclaimer: My views. Too bad it's not those of my employer.
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