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From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question 3: How's Commodore doing?
Summary: It doesn't matter whether Microsoft is good or not...
Keywords: Microsoft, Amiga, Commodore, Sales
Message-ID: <2325@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 23:20:28 GMT
References: <2321@leah.Albany.Edu> <24733@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <24733@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>, kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
> 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  doesn't  matter whether Microsoft software is any good. It will make
the Amiga look good if Microsoft ports its stuff over, tho... They are a
prestigious  company. It doesn't really matter to me directly. I'm happy
with the Amiga specific software anyway...
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