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Originally posted by Wurm:
Neb I am a full supporter of a MS led world, if it wasn't for MS we wouldn't be writing to each other across thousand of miles or enjoying the many games that we do. But if you think I trust MS... well then I have some land near Live Oak Florida to sell you [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Untrue, the internet and it's standards are totally o/s independant. In fact, most of the standards used today were conceived well before winblows was commercially successful.
I was networking with OS/2 long before winblows had reliable PPP software, and while win3.1 sufferers rebooted to dos to get reliable comms I was able to multitask and play games in a dos window while I was downloading in another.
As for games, until the late 90s OS/2 was a much better platform for games than winblows, and there were companies generating 7 digit returns at that time. Unfortunately, micro$hafts underhanded business practices and IBM's lackluster customer support eroded OS/2s customer base to the point where it was not commercially viable to do so, and eventually killed OS/2. Today, even with a 10 year technology edge, winblows still hasn't displaced OS/2 as my main o/s. In fact there are a few things I simply
cannot do with 98se that OS/2 handles with ease. {such as recognizing both my scanner and my cd-burner at the same time}
The worst thing about micro$haft dominance today is the insistance of newbies of using the latest office software to send simple text documents, or using frontpage - with it's broken html output - to generate webpages, that only micro$hafts software can reliably read.
In micro$hafts eyes, standards were made to be broken...unless they developed them, in that case they come down like a ton of bricks on offenders.
[ 11-07-2002, 06:10 PM: Message edited by: Sir Krustin ]