From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
Date: 03 Jan 93 07:55:49 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan2.231739.7081@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com>, philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>>>
>>>	All this talk about FUD & Misinformation about OS/2 from Microsoft has
>>>some NEW Merit!
>>>
>>>	I Recently talked to a Beta Tester of DOS 6.0. He Runs OS/2 with 2 Hard
>>>Drives, One FAT, One HPFS. He decided to Install the DOS 6.0 Beta on the FAT
>>>Partition, and got a Message saying, and I paraphrase: 
>>>
>>>- OS/2 Detected! Due to the size of OS/2 you may wish to delete your OS/2 
>>>files before installing DOS 6.0 -
>> 
>>      Interesting.  What is the problem with that?  If there was a
>> similar message that said "Autocad detected.  Due to the size of
>> Autocad you may wish to delete your Autocad files before installing
>> DOS 6.0", whould that be bad too?
>> 
>	It would be a bad thing to say if your were intsalling
>say MS-CAD.  It is the same as if you were installing Word for Windows
>and it detected Ami Pro.  I think it would be pretty slimey to have
>Ms-Word say "Ami Pro Detected, due to its disk use, you should probably
>delete it before installing Ms-Word."

    We're still assuming that the message is as it was originally
presented - I expect that this is not a very good assumption.
I'll check on Monday.


>	However, I think I could live with the DOS 6 message if it
>also detects Windows NT.

    If the message is what I think it is, it probably should.
Then again, I would also expect that people running the Windows NT
beta would be aware that it would be incompatible with certain
features in DOS 6.


>>>I Truely Hope This Beta Tester sends this one to the FTC!!!!
>> 
>>     Please explain what in the above warning message is the
>> slightest bit anticompetitive.  See if you can end your sentence
>> with fewer than four exclamation points.
>> 
>	What an amazingly arrogant comment.  I think I will have to buffer
>that one.  I think anyone but a pre-programmed MS-Drone would admit that
>such a message about a competiting product is wrong and anticompetitive.

    Explain, then, exactly _how_ the message is anticompetitive.
You can go on and on about my arrogance, but you haven't answered
the basic question.
    It all comes down to this:  Can the truth be FUD?


>>>If this type of FUD and intentional Misinformation (apparently sanctioned by
>>>management at M$ ) continues, the FTC SHOULD!!!! FINE and Split M$!!!
>> 
>>     Please explain where in the above warning message is anything
>> that is "FUD and intentional Misinformation".  Also explain
>> how fining and splitting MS would do anything positive in
>> this situation, which you apparently find so disturbing.
>> 
>> 
>	Why?  Because it is blatantly anti-competitive.  

    Again.  Why is it anticompetitive?


>	I was just wondering, when you first start at Microsoft, do they
>give you a set of subliminal arrogance tapes to listen to while you are
>asleep or have you always been this way?  

    Heh.  Good one.  Very clever.

				-Phil


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