Jeff Wright > F.U.D.-R.L.R. > (Fear Uncertainty Doubt - Repeat Lather Rinse)
> Yes, everything MS touches turns to gold. Their Internet > strategy of owning it via MSN has paid off so handsomely > for them. No, wait. It hasn't. Maybe the Xbox line will > turn a profit one day too. > > Golly, maybe Adobe will, you know, innovate in the face of > competition. Hmmmm, word processing (WP had, MS took it away), C++ compiler (at least 2 or 3 competitors, MS took it away), Instant Messaging (primarily AOL, hmmm, not so much anymore, it turns out to have been over taken by cell phones after MS took it over...), there was a contributor here a little while ago that said that he was offered what amounted to change for his dos command line history functionality, he refused and MS announced that piece o'crap DOSKEY. Yes, MS said that stealing AOL IM was allowing MS to provide functionality that customers wanted, but the reverse wasn't available, that is MS intellectual property. Bull cookies! -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats! ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
