The 1-2-3 was just as much their fault as anything else. They thought
people were going to pick OS/2 over Windows so they never actually
created a true windows version, only a wrapper for the DOS version. By
the time they created a Windows Version it was too late.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> For me, it's not so much what they did, but more how they did it.
> 
> They practiced some pretty underhanded techniques to keep them on
> the top... If you were a little older maybe you'd remember...
pretending
> to buy out someone, getting the source, and then somehow getting
> out of the deal... and what was the 123 thing they crushed... bah.
> It's all in the annals of history, probably even on the web.
> 
> They were BRUTAL, man, brutal.  Check it out, see what you find.
> It's not unnatural, I mean, power does that to stuff, neh?  Really,
tho,
> MS needed some slap-downs.  Which they got a few of, IIRC. :-)
> 
> 
> That's the behavior I had a problem with.  It's one thing to do things
> the "right way", and another to be underhanded.  Eh...
> 
> 
> 

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