Re: Commentary: I Hate to Leave Like This

[Damin@damage.cleve.fnet.org]

    kmunoz@cs.oberlin.edu (Kevin Munoz), saw reply that needed
    answering. It was called "Re: Commentary: I Hate to Leave Like This":

>>>Damin@damage.cleve.fnet.org writes:
>>>Intel and Bill Gates are in a BAD BAD BAD position with the upcoming
>>>PowerPC's! And like I stated before, with the kludges inherent in the
>>>Pentium to make it X86 compatible, it's got sever limitations. (Not to
>>>mention that it is a bitch to program for)
>>
>>As much as I can't stand Microsoft products, let us be honest here. The
>>fact that Microsoft owns the DOS-PC software market doesn't mean that
>>it is not capable of gunning just as hard for the PowerPC market. If
>>the Intel ship goes down I guarantee you Bill Gates will NOT be on it.
>>
>>Intel, on the other hand, is worse off. I would say the chances are
>>better than even that Intel's dominance of the Processor market will
>>soon seem like a bad dream.
>
>Yeah, actually, Microsoft is in a great position. They're
>already revving to develop Windows on Mac and Unix machines. With the
>PowerPC they will be doing likewise: writing new, exciting,
>disturbingly bad and kludgy software. ;)

Yeah true, but they will never regain the status that they held in the X86
market.

I do have to say that MicroSoft Word 5.0 is an amazingly awsome word
processing program and I HOPE that a PowerPC Implementation will be available
that is just as functional.

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