In article <2637022.SGQrMN91mc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> More shills for the killfile. Unsurprisingly, all his posts are in defence of
> Microsoft.
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> Message-ID: <MPG.1feff3bbc89fada39896ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Greg Cox <gregc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
> Subject: Re: Microsoft Still Lobbies in Kerala (Linux State)
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:39:55 GMT
Why did it take you almost a month to respond to this?
> > Some were indeed purchased from competitors, and some might even be called
> > third rate, though most were probably 2nd rate. Â Microsoft seldom buys a
> > company at the top. Â But they typically enhance said application a great
> > deal in the process. Â Certainly Word today (or even Word from 10 years ago)
> > is far beyond the simple word process they bought in 1983.
> >
> > > some of whom were simply creating cheap knock-offs of superior products
> > > such as Lotus 1-2-3, Corel Draw, Harvard Graphics, and WordPerfect.
> >
> > Microsoft did not buy Excel, it was written entirely by its own company,
> > though Multiplan was a purchase many years ago. Â
>
> I don't believe either Word or Multiplan were purchased but were
> completely developed in-house. Â If my memory serves, Charles Simoni was
> the architect for Word and probably Multiplan although Jeff Harbors may
> also deserve some of the credit. Â In any case, both Word and Multiplan
> were in development at Microsoft in 1981 when I became the 8086 assembly
> language guy that was responsible for the p-code interpreter that hosted
> Word, MultiPlan, and the other products in the MultiTools line.
You'd think in that month, you could have done a little research, Roy.
Then you'd have found out that Greg is right about Word. It was
developed by Charles Simonyi, and Richard Brodie, both who had come from
Xerox PARC, where Simonyi *invented* the word processor.
If you can't address his points, just STFU, instead of trotting out your
predictable shill argument (especially considering that he *told* us he
used to work for Microsoft, but you continue to keep silent about who is
financing your FUD campaign).
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--Tim Smith
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