On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Kabagambe Kenneth wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:55:29PM -0700, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 19 August 2004 00:19, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > > > > > > > btw, viruses make OS coders think of better and more robust platforms. > > > > > > You'd have though M$ would have followed this thought... > > > > microsoft are morons. they fired one of their guys a week back after he > > Ernest, tune your clock forward.That story is almost a year old.
actually.. i realised after reading it that it was last year's :) > Though it still defies logic why he would be fired,though he wasnot > fired by Microsoft, rather by a sub-contractor. Granted he took a snap, > we all want to test our software on different platforms to see how it > works which would explain Microsoft using Apple Macs inhouse for alpha > and beta testing(http://beta.microsoft.com/). To imagine that you will > deploy software on hardware of your choice and expect it to find inroads > in the lucrative PC market is to think in a box, not out of it. They > have to test among others Office for Mac,Messenger for Mac. Just look at > some of the products.http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ Guess it is much ado > about nothing. ken that is probably the main reason those Macs were bought by M$. (I really hope so.. besides, even Linus Torvalds PC dual boots XP and RedHAt :) ) ernest. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
