Re: What Microsoft wants for your future

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 01:02:05 MDT

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    Charles Hixson wrote:

    > Perhaps you are right. Of course, the only way to get the right to use
    > MSOffice is going to be to install it under MSwindows, and MSwindows is
    > becoming less and less friendly to having other OSs on the same
    > computer. So you are going to be needing to analyse the software while
    > using a legal copy of MSWindows. This means your tools need to run
    > under MSwindows. And MSOS is going to ensure that only approved
    > programs are allowed to execute....
    >

    Since the main bit of interoperability needed or at least
    strived for today is the ability to read/write MS Office
    formatted files, there is no real necessity to do this work on
    MSWindows.

    If MS ever seriously attempts only allowing programs it approves
    of to execute when I am running Windows then I will stop running
    Windows ever that very same day. As a programmer myself I will
    be damned if I will ask Microsoft if I can run my own programs
    or beg them for permission to sell them to other people who run
    Windows.

    - samantha



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