Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released)

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9d6pnr$6a6$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
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>Excellent point! Even with absolute control over their own product, they
>couldn't stop it from diverging! Sort of the "Tower of Babel" all over
>again. Internally, you have a community of programmers (& managers) who

As another good illustration of this, just yesterday I purchaced a new Windows
game (Tropico) which listed on its box no less than 5 Windows OS's that it runs
on. That's acutally a really nice effort on PopTop's part. Most game companies
only list one or two, and refuse any support calls from users on unlisted
variants, like NT. Most of my software development tools at work are even worse.
They support either NT or 2K, and nothing else.

You'd think Microsoft would take great pains to *avoid* the "forking" issue. :-)

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