In article <1slalp$ls2@tamsun.tamu.edu> jeffw@cs.tamu.edu (Jeffrey A Waller) writes: >In article <1993May10.053122.13593@microsoft.com>, jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes: >|> In article <C6rq6B.F3v@uceng.uc.edu> bferrell@ant.occ.uc.edu (Brett Ferrell) writes: >|> >In article <1993May07.201242.1449@microsoft.com> cliffga@microsoft.com (Clifford Garrett) writes: >|> >>/I guess thats why there are so many new DOS and OS/2 applications >|> >>/coming and hardly any Windows apps coming out? (irony) >|> >> >|> >>Yep,  the os/2 apps are comming, the os/2 apps are comming.  >|> > >|> >Yet another Micro-minion hoping that if he says something long enough,  >|> > >|> Hey, I remember the good old days running OS/2 2.0 alpha with Brief, >|> Excel, Word, and a couple internal apps (product support database  >|> client, OS/2-based email front-end). Life was good. But it was also >|> impractical 'cause the masses were using Windows and my job was to help >|> the masses. > >Apparently you prefer OS/2 to Windows or at least did;   To windows 3.0, yes.  >by you last comment >do you mean that your knowledge of OS/2 is dated (it must be) or argue  It's definitely dated - I used OS/2 1.21, & alpha 2.0 (when msft was developing it...)  >I suspect that the masses were using Windows because they couldn't afford >to use OS/2, can you say as much for NT?  I preferred Windows 3.1 because it was more stable & faster than 3.0, but could still run more apps than OS/2 (again I made this choice before 2.0 was released).  >But getting back to the original question, do you have any data on the >relative avaliablity or Windows applications versus OS/2 applications >or any evidence that stated support will be dropped by any of the above?  No, I've seen no such data.  >|> >Grow up.  Other companies are supporting OS/2.  Make points please.   >|>  >|> If you see life in terms of debating points, I think you need >|> to grow up. > >Ah yes I remember the days when we kids would engage in orderly debate, >but our parents would usually find out and force us to act in the more >mature manner of heaping invective and casting rocks and dirt clods.  hee hee.  good one  ;>  ;>  >|> >It doesn't help Microsoft >|> >to have employees (I assume you are, due to the ORG, may be wrong) saying >|> >such trivial things on the net.   >|>  >|> So? >|> Microsoft employs over 10,000 employees. Walking into this place is  >|> not like walking into the "1984" commercial. There are individuals >|> here. You think they'll all talk the same way, say the same thing,  >|> and "help Microsoft" all the time?   If so, WHY? > >It appears to me that he is voicing his frustration to an attitude >he has encountered before.    ...and one that I've encountered as well...  >I on the other hand have had no such >experience other than from reading this thread.  You at Microsoft >are in a unique position to present facts,   Hmm. Are you sure?  I'm speaking from my own experience as an OS/2 _user_. Certainly people in, say, the NT marketing group  would be in a unique position to present the results of, say, research on upcoming NT and OS/2 apps (vs Windows and MS-DOS apps). Part of my point was that just cause one works at microsoft does  not mean one has access to such data (if it exists).  >but prefer to make baseless claims or attack to poster.  I must  >make the same conclusion as he.   I will confess to, at times, attacking the poster.    >|> USENET accounts are not restricted to the marketroids. They're >|> open to any fulltimer, and are primarily for recreational purposes. >|> Yeah, some of us are likely to answer a question or hop into a  >|> debate.  Or make stupid comments. You know, like human beings? > >I'm sorry this newsgroup is only for opressed hackers and stranded >extraterrestrials, not humans.  How about alt.microsoft.humans?  You >seem to discount others anyway.  Again, my point was that not all microsofties are here to "sell"  readers on our products (which would conflict with the "no-ads"  philosophy of usenet).  Nor do we necessarily have access to info that others have.  I also get tired of people assuming that microsofties are, like, members of the BORG.  -jen  --