RE: Ballmer on software design....

Funny thing is... other operating systems (i.e., *nix) has a plug-in
based... well.... everything. From the kernel to the UI. Microsoft just
doesn't seem to understand that an OS is the part that makes the computer a
computer, all the other stuff is software and therefore should be optional.
Linux would not be able to be installed on a 386 if you had to install KDE
or Gnome, or run on a floppy disk, like it can now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:22 PM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Ballmer on software design....



that's a classic and a keeper.

the funny thing is, ever since the anti-trust thing started up, MS has used
all of it's resources to make SURE future versions of windows wouldn't run
without IE - anyone remember the mocked-up-bogus screen shots of
'98-sans-IE they displayed as 'evidence' to the integration of IE into the
os, during the anti-trust trial?

what a crock

---original message---
"That's the way good software gets designed. So if you pull out a piece it
won't run."

Steve Ballmer.
CEO
Microsoft

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/05/020305hnmsceo.xml



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