Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) From: billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet) Date: 28 Sep 1992 19:59:46 EST
ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
: The leader of the Windows NT project is a guy named Dave Cutler
: who worked for DEC before this job. He was asked how doing this
: project was different from his earlier work. He said ``it's the
: same OS, but I've never seen such marketing''.
:
: Really: it's sickening to see the way the peasants are blindly
: believing that Windows NT is the ``OS of the future''. This when
: it's as certain as plain daylight that Microsoft will never have
: a market share as large as what it had in 1987, ever again, even
: if Windows NT can ship before end-1993 and it can be free of bugs
: and it can be worth using for anyone. Remember these guys tried writing
: DOS, Windows, OS/2.
:
: I work hard on educating all the peasants I can find.
No doubt. I like the way microsoft makes the idea of having a graphical
operating system that runs on a variety of platforms. Sounds like
they're trying to re-invent X-Windows... except without a powerful
command line interface. Dragging icons around is nice, but its not an
effecient way to get things done.
--billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu