After takin' a swig o' grog, Doug Mentohl belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> From: Bill Gates
>
> Some people like to suggest that developers were confused about whether
> OS/2 or Windows would succeed. Microsoft certainly didn't have a crystal
> ball on this. We shipped Excel well before 1/2/3 shipped. We shipped
> Word way before anyone except Describe shipped a Word processor. Other
> than IBM we lost more money on OS/2 than anyone lese in both systems and
> applications. Fortunately it is not hard to retarget a program written
> for one graphical platform to another and a number of libraries were
> available to make the task very straightforward ..
More revisionism from Bill Gates.
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He didn't run for reelection. "Politics brings you into contact with all
the people you'd give anything to avoid," he said. "I'm staying home."
-- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegone Days"
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