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Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!




On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 ychim@ForeverMail.com wrote:
> 
> > MS said that there is no Linux port.

This is not surprising and you can't blame MS really.  Despite all their
success, they live on a weak OS whose purpose in life is to run a buggy 
word processor which they must sell to each customer multiple times in
order to survive.  Gates has said he looks at free software as his biggest
threat, and it looks like he's right.

> Sun Computer running Solaris.  Thats all they are planning on releasing
> for.

Which is a complete cop out in today's world.  They only do this to have
something to babble about when the next round on anti-trust debate starts.

>  
> > 
> > 
> > Brian K Servis wrote:
> > > 
> > > Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!!
> > > 
> > > M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5.
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm.  It is even more
> > > bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when done
> > > installing and 60M during the install, YIKES!
> > > 
> > > Brian Servis
> > > --
> > > Mechanical Engineering                              servis@purdue.edu
> > > Purdue University                   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
> > > 
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