"Vincent Fritters" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On 2009-03-02, Doug Mentohl <[email protected]> wrote:
They were a company involved in data compression, before they got fucked
over by MS ..
And they are not the only ones.
Even IBM got burned while playing nice with Microsoft.
While Microsoft was developing OS/2 with IBM, they
were secretly and not so secretly poisoning the
marketplace with Windows NT FUD. IBM were fools to
believe Microsoft ever had any real interest in OS/2 and
they got burned for being foolish.
Small companies get screwed over totally by Microsoft because
they don't have the resources that IBM has.
Stick with the bologna and goetta, Vince, you are likely to be better at
that than you are at remembering the chronological order of things.
Microsoft had their falling out with IBM over Windows 3.0, not NT. NT came
much later, after OS/2 and Win95 were locking horns. IBM didn't want a
cheap GUI based platform like Windows as competition for their rather pricey
OS/2 with its Presentation Manager. Gates saw the future differently, of
course, and was able to gain the upper hand. If IBM would have had its way
and managed to kill Windows at an early age, we would all be using OS/2 on
IBM's PS/2 or maybe by now it would be OS/5 on the PS/5, but there would be
no massive competition for Wintel PCs, that much is certain. IBM was unable
to recapture the PC market in the early 90s because they were opposed by
Microsoft and the cloners like Compaq and Dell and many others. Would you
rather IBM had the monopoly in hardware and software? Silly boy.
r Vincent's Smoked Meats.
"Meat's Meat and Man's Gotta Eat"
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