From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
Date: 31 Jul 92 07:55:06 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Jul30.160022.28509@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.094508.29104@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
>>[.............]  If OS/2 looks like it'll sell well, then MS may write 
>>apps for it.  However, the general though is that it makes more sense
>                                    ^^^^^^
>>to write for Win32 at this point in time.  This is true for a lot of
>>App developers.  If Mac people stopped buying software, MS would stop
>>selling it.  This includes Excel, the most popular spreadsheet for
>>the Mac.
>
>Look everyone, all MS programmers can't spell.  #8^)  Seriously...

Hey, if I didn't include the obligatory spelling mistak, you wouldn't
believe it was me.                               ^^^^^^ there it be.
It's my trademark.  
>
>What does MS consider selling well for OS/2?  Will MS really wait
>for OS/2 to have 2 million users before thinking of writing apps
>for OS/2?  They would have to catch up to there competition.

I don't know exact numbers.  MS has a limited number of resources.  MS
usually uses these resources as efficiently as possible.  Writing apps for
OS/2 would probably mean not writint apps for Mac, or Win16, or Win32,
all of which are, or will be in MS's eyes, far more profitable.  When
it looks like OS/2 will be profitable enough to warrent spending extra
resources developing for it, then Apps will be developed for it.
>
>Will MS wait for NT to have 2 million users before writing apps
>for NT?

MS believes NT will be successful.  They are more sure of it's success than
they are of OS/2.  That's why NT apps are being developed.
>
>Will MS abandon Win16 in favor of Win32 in future versions of
>Windows?

When most of the machines become 32 bit machines (386+, RISC, etc), then
it would make sense to do this, IMHO.  What will really happen, I cannot say.

>
>Will MS force Pete to spell? ;)

Is that conceivable?  Me, Spell.  No way.

But now, you too can spell like me.  Just get my PETE.EXE netnews filter.
It'll add the necessary spelling mistakes so that your posts sound like mine.
;) ;) ;)
.
>
>>Oh, yeah, if you really want MS apps for OS/2, get your friends together
>>and complain to MS.  However, I think you should want the apps for wanting
>>the apps, not to make OS/2 a success.  Seems kind of sleazy to me if you
>>request MS apps just to make OS/2 more popular, and then buy other apps.
>
>Competition is good.  I could choose between WP 6.0 for OS/2, or Word
>2.0 for OS/2.  Or between BC++ 3.1 for OS/2, or MS C++ 7.0 for OS/2.
>
>>Heck, you run apps, not operating systems anyway.  (Don't tell me you spend
>>your whole day formatting floppies and running batch files, Yeuch).
>
>Thanks to OS/2, I don't have to spend the whole day formatting... :)
>BTW, FORMAT is an app.

Can I buy it separate?  I though it came in the box labled DOS, or OS/2.

Praise the heavens I'm on a network, though, I hate using floppies.
>
>>
>>petesk@microsoft.com
>>My Opinions...
>
>My Onions... <silly grin>
petesk@microsoft.com
My Garlic.


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