[slug-chat] Re: [SLUG] "Anna Kournikova" email worm - disinfection

["Peter Faulks" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is way off topic so I've moved it to the chat area:

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:36:35 +1100, Jon Biddell wrote:
[snip]
>Where M$ fscked up is when they released Windows 3.0 - originally, Windows 
>was a run-time environment for Ventura (I think - may have been PageMaker). 
>When WordPerfect came to them and said "We like your O/S - we want to make 
>our software run under it", M$ should have said "No, we sell WORD as a WP 
>program - go write your own GUI - in fact, we'll make damn sure it WON'T 
>run under Windows".  Yes, they wpould have been relying on the "strength" 
>of Word to win over WP users.

I Could be wrong, but that isn't how I understand the events...

MS & IBM were co-developing OS/2. MS was spruiking OS/2 to the Lotuses
and the Word Perfect Corps and whoever else would listen. "OS/2 is
going to be the operating system of the 90's" (or similar) - Bill Gates
(sometime after the "640k is more than enough for anyone" gaff).

Meantime IBM & MS had a tiff - IBM wanted OS/2 to be backwardly
compatible with the 286, MS said 'bollocks to that' and released
Windows. This was (partially) why Lotus 123 & Word Perfect died to
Excel & Word, They were busy writing OS/2 versions. (The other reason
of course was that MS hid a lot of the Windows API). Early Windows
versions of 123 & WP absolutely sucked.