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____/ Linonut on Sunday 03 August 2008 19:27 : \____
> * Rex Ballard peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> IBM may have even thought that they were getting Microsoft
>> Xenix instead of MS-DOS. Microsoft had been offering Xenix for 68000
>> based Tandy computers.
>
> It's difficult to believe "IBM" could have been /that/ naive, even if
> Gates told them (and I'm sure he did not) that it was a Xenix-based
> product.
>
>> In fact, when Windows NT 4.0 was released, it was Red Hat 4.0 that won
>> the prize for best new product of the year.
>
> Man, I wish I had been more involved in the operating-system scene at
> that time.
>
>> They are only "innovations" because this is the first
>> time that Microsoft has added them to their shovelware offerings.
>
> Heh heh.
>
> (Sorry, that is my latest meme. It should die out shortly.)
>
>> Microsoft has a real problem. Vista was a flop, but they don't have a
>> back-up plan. There is no "Chicago" waiting in the wings. Vaporware
>> announcements of Windows 7.0 don't seem to have impressed anybody.
>
> They are unusually vaporous, even for Microsoft.
They have had 3 Windows-esque vaporware showscasts/leaks (Midori was a leak) in
the past few months. It's confusion on the crossroad. Many leaders left
(Johnson being the latest blow and it hit Microsoft out of nowhere).
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