Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 17:39:45 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 28 Mar 1995 meyer@newslink.org wrote:
> > Win your customer's trust: 10 - 3rd party vendors!
> > Keep your skin thick: 10 - NT 3.oops
> > Know your product: 10 - Money, NT vs. Unix
> > Give them a smile: 8 - Even when 90% of your
product is 12 to 36 months late.
> > And a handshake: 8 - A golden handshake,
like to - Stacker, Lotus, WP, Novell, and all your other old friends.
> > Trot our your testimonials: 8
Anyone actually admitted that they have put up an NT Server on mission
critical applications for >200 paying customers?
> > Talk the customer's talk: 10
> > Dress for success: 7
Microsoft sales people are wearing SUITS on FRIDAYS (only)!
> > Never overpromise or underdeliver: 10
Well, the license on the shrink-wrap says it isn't good for any
purpose.
> > Update your toolkit: 10
Must of been describing the Developer's Program.
Free upgrades 4x/year? Or $100 upgrades 1/year/applications
for a total of $700/year
> Windows 95, er, 96?
An Optomist - Maybe by 97 it will do as much as X11/R4
> Microsoft Money?
Don't you want to turn your paycheck into Billy Bucks? You'll
get the withdrawal capability in May (of some year)!
> MS-DOS 4?
Wasn't that the one where they first promised multitasking?
> MS-DOS 6.0?
You too can shred your hard disk with our unremovable compression
utility. We even offer Backups - 500 megabytes to 200 floppys
(vendors bundle CD-ROM and MS-Windows/Office, but no tape Back-Up).
> Need I go on?
And miss the "Tree of Evil?"
How about "Mandatory upgrades to 32 bit software" (1996)
How about "Communications is a grt on wndos 3.1, Bll Gtes"
Other famous Bill Gates Quotes:
Why would anybody need more than 1 megabyte of RAM?
(when given choice of 16Meg or 1 meg segmentation)
Multitasking, who needs it?
OS/2 will be the operating system of the 90s
The tree of evil bears no fruit, trashing disk now.
We're not in the applications business (1984)
We're not in the LAN business (1989)
We're not in the TCP/IP business (1993)
We're not in the News business (1994)
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From rballard@cnj.digex.net Wed Apr 5 18:04:51 1995
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