On 2006-05-25, Super Spinner <Pepe.Smythe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> The geek who took on Microsoft
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>
> You guys have always claimed that Microsoft Office is prevalent because
> they lock up their formats (glossing over the fact that Word Star,
> Lotus, WordPerfect, dBase all locked up their formats and Microsoft
> came from behind and defeated them). You are going to learn that the
Microsoft didn't "come from behind". They leveraged the fact that
they were the people who controlled the platform that Lotus, Wordperfect
and dBase all had to go through.
> formats were not the issue, functionality/usability was and is.
Born yesterday I see.
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Some of us were actual witness to the whole shenanigan.
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