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CannibalCat 
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 03:28 PM
Uh huh. WordPerfect cause W95 to crash.
And Windows wasn't taken from MacOS.
And Windows wasn't taken from MacOS.
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 03:38 PM
Ironic really: imho, WordPerfect is STILL a far superior piece of software than MS Office (even after Corel screwed with it!).
I personally support the suit.
PS. Didn't it make more difference what time of day it was, or what colour underwear you wore, as to whether Win95 crashed?
I personally support the suit.
PS. Didn't it make more difference what time of day it was, or what colour underwear you wore, as to whether Win95 crashed?
To disagree without being disagreeable is the art of debate. Simply because one has a strong opinion, it does not necessarily make an alternative opinion less valid.
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Posted 22 November 2011 - 05:34 PM
Wow a $1B lawsuit and a $1B loss when WordPerfect was sold the Corel!
I, personally, was using Win3.1 with W32s and 3.11 extensions/improvements in 1995. My personal experience with Win95 did not start until 1997. As an armature Windows programmer, I also know that it is all to easy to have programs with memory leaks that can either cause the operating system to crash (BSOD)or at the very least quit responding (crash). These problems were prevalent in all Win9x versions that I have used. Even Win98 provided a BSOD when presented by Gates and Balmer (I have a video of it somewhere) when loading a driver.
Bottom line, competitor or not, if the product could not perform on the operating system, it should not have been certified. Should Microsoft have helped Novell in resolving these system issues? Maybe. This one I will leave to the courts.
I, personally, was using Win3.1 with W32s and 3.11 extensions/improvements in 1995. My personal experience with Win95 did not start until 1997. As an armature Windows programmer, I also know that it is all to easy to have programs with memory leaks that can either cause the operating system to crash (BSOD)or at the very least quit responding (crash). These problems were prevalent in all Win9x versions that I have used. Even Win98 provided a BSOD when presented by Gates and Balmer (I have a video of it somewhere) when loading a driver.
Bottom line, competitor or not, if the product could not perform on the operating system, it should not have been certified. Should Microsoft have helped Novell in resolving these system issues? Maybe. This one I will leave to the courts.
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