re re challenge to microsoft supporters in article slalp ls tamsun tamu edu jeffw cs tamu edu jeffrey a waller writes in article may microsoft com jenk microsoft com jen kilmer writes in article c rq b f v uceng uc edu bferrell ant occ uc edu brett ferrell writes in article may microsoft com cliffga microsoft com clifford garrett writes i guess thats why there are so many new dos and os applications coming and hardly any windows apps coming out irony yep the os apps are comming the os apps are comming yet another micro minion hoping that if he says something long enough hey i remember the good old days running os alpha with brief excel word and a couple internal apps product support database client os 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 to windows or at least did to windows yes by you last comment do you mean that your knowledge of os is dated it must be or argue it s definitely dated i used os alpha when msft was developing it i suspect that the masses were using windows because they couldn t afford to use os can you say as much for nt i preferred windows because it was more stable faster than but could still run more apps than os again i made this choice before was released but getting back to the original question do you have any data on the relative avaliablity or windows applications versus os 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 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 employees walking into this place is not like walking into the 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 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 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 include stdisclaimer jenk microsoft com msdos testing
