Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 14:47:12 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <199704082147.OAA01013@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Apr 1997 17:06:20 EDT." <3.0.32.19970408170617.00a4a820@etinc.com>
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Yes, It is nice to chalked up to Microsoft the purchase of WebTV;however, the real question is if any of the big computer companies even tried to ??? There is a ton of lethargy in the computer industry or more like monkeys waiting to see what will happen next... Amancio >From The Desk Of dennis : > At 02:30 PM 4/8/97 -0400, Peter Dufault wrote: > >> > >> its not THAT outrageous...if you think those guys can't be bought (they > >> already > >> have been, in fact), then you're head is in the sand....stranger things > have > >> happened..... > > > >Anyone wanting to whip up their paranoia a level should get the latest > >issue of Upside. I don't think it is an April fool's issue. Some high > >points I remember include: > > > >Microsoft R&D $2e9 this year "and we're going to triple it" (they > >don't say how fast though); > > > >Microsoft hardware group revenues $3e6 per employee; > > > >Microsoft presenting 20% of the papers at SIGGRAPH; > > > >etc etc. > > > >Especially entertaining is the discussion of the Windows CE platform, > >which one article claims is a proprietary hardware and software > >product with the manufacturers competing to be low cost contract > >hardware manufacturers for Microsoft. > > I wonder how long its going to take for the courts to bone up on this and > understand what Microsoft has become. The WebTV acquisition is very > troubing to me, as well as the fact that they also announced that the will > be selling "diskless workstations". Pretty soon they will make everyone > buy hardware from them also...it seems fairly clear that thats the direction > they are taking. > > Dennis
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