re re re challenge to microsoft supporters in article may gps leeds ac uk csympc scs leeds ac uk m p conmy writes in article c uq ii feenix metronet com jack feenix metronet com jack hudler writes in article twalls vo ncc d demon co uk twalls ncc d demon co uk tim walls writes but i don t want to have to run blasted windows every time i want to delete a tree it is absolutely ludicrous to load a hog like that just to delete some files it would be like requiring a crane to change the tyre on a car then why don t you download som of the public domain utilitys the do exactly what you want an shut up why should he have to this sort of thing should be included how about the millions of people who don t have access to pd libraries over networks just because people can work around it doesn t mean that something shouldn t be done to remedy the situation these are perfectly valid points and i agree i m glad we ms are starting to remedy this situation with dos and it will get better in future releases you do need to be aware of some history however in the mid late s ms s point of view was that os was going to take over the world and dos would be phased out as such resources for dos and windows for that matter development were mostly redirected to os the theory was to keep just enough resources on dos to support people until they started using os so utilities and such for dos fell by the wayside then windows hit the market os flopped x at least x seems to be doing a little better but its future is still cloudy and people either stayed with their dos x and x apps or moved to windows about that point in time ms made its decision to drop os for dos windows in the short term and windows nt in the long term dos much improved over dos x and x was the first result of ms s refocussing on dos and windows version takes things somewhat further and i suspect future versions will offer even more in terms of real os features i work on nt and have no real clue about what my coworkers over in dosland are doing but i do know that there are a heck of a lot more of them than there were a few years ago dave of course these are my opinions if you want ms s opinions as a pr person
