Re: About satandrads and politics

[cogNiTioN <cognition@bigfoot.com>]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Bud Beckman wrote:
 
> Didn't Sun take MS to court?

Film at 11.

> >The users still chose standards
> >over the quality of the product: one of the main things that keeps MS

The main reason Windows is still alive.

> >Office selling so well is the fact that it is the only office suite that
> >completely conforms to the (defacto) standard.
> 
> Never having used MS Office, to what standards are you referring?

I guess he means the MS Office standard which has now become the defacto
standard. Try sending a MS only user a doc in a format word won't
understand, they'll barf. Most probably havn't heard of a spreadsheet
other than Excel, and as for Powerpoint.....

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