Gee, what other OS exists anymore that will run on an Intel chip AND run
Windows Office Suite? Or Photoshop? Or HomeSite?
With the demise of DR-DOS and OS/2 -- and OEMs telling Apple not to bother
porting to Intel cause MS had em over a barrel .... just which OS do you
think they might offer?
Please note the criticism referenced below originated with the **software
publishers association**
Kathy
At 7:17 PM -0500 7/1/98, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>What I don't understand is if so many people are against what Microsoft is
>doing, then why don't the computer manufacturers choose another operating
>system to ship with their systems? Microsoft doesn't own the computers.
>They own the software.
>
>That's like saying just because I buy gas at a certain filling station
>once, they can order me to /always/ use their gas and none other. And if I
>do, then I'm not allowed to buy a car from an auto dealer who puts the same
>gas in that I do.
>
>IMHO it's up to Compaq, IBM, Packard Bell, Dell, other PC manufacturers and
>even Apple, to just change vendors for their operating systems and
>software. I wonder why Amiga doesn't have this problem.
>
>Jim
>
>
>
>At 04:42 PM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>>From Edupage:
>>
>>
>>> HATCH RENEWS CALLS FOR MICROSOFT ANTITRUST ACTION
>>> Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has called for new hearings into Microsoft's
>>> dealings with computer manufacturers, this time with regard to Windows NT.
>>> A report by the Software Publishers Association describes how "if
>allowed to
>>> proceed with its tried and true market practices, Microsoft will extend its
>>> current desktop monopoly to control the market for network servers -- a
>>> technology which provides the foundation for the Internet and corporate
>>> intranets," warned Hatch last Friday. Calling last week's court
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