From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 07:05:53 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9d6dmc$24v$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d6i89$3nf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d6pnr$6a6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:05:19 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:05:19 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7368 Date: 2001-05-09T14:05:19+00:00 List-Id: In article <9d6pnr$6a6$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >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. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com