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Gates testifies in $1-billion lawsuit against Microsoft
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| 21 Nov 2011
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Posted on 11/21/2011 8:32:43 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
Isn’t NOvell now nothing but a front for a lawsuit happy kabal of shysters?
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
11/21/2011 8:37:00 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: smokingfrog
We thought everybody would have a personal computer on every desk and in every home, he said. "Who knew more than one person would use a computer at a time, or network them together??"
To: smokingfrog
Word Perfect was great, but the thing was harder to use and even harder to train someone to use.
I took naturally to Word Perfect because I was trained in the era of IBM Selectric Keyboarding but for the users who never typed, MS Word was incredible. Even they could type.
In the end, Word won due to its simplicity and not because it was more capable.
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posted on
11/21/2011 8:40:21 PM PST
by
dila813
To: smokingfrog
Word sucked from the beginning and still sucks. I am stuck with it but I hate it (and Office 2010) with a personal passion.
WordPerfect WAS better. MUCH MUCH better.
I don’t know what that says about the merits of the case, but it is true.
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posted on
11/21/2011 8:42:57 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
To: dila813
Some hardy souls are selling this on Amazon.
To: Spktyr
Ive known about SCO, but I thought that’s what Novell ended up becoming as well.
To: martin_fierro
I just tossed mine away recently because I couldn't read the floppies. Some of my papers from college will now never be readable...
Hey, they weren't that bad.
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posted on
11/21/2011 8:59:13 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: freedumb2003
You are correct. Wordperfect was awesome. Word tried to emulate a typewriter, along with all of the limitations of dealing with one character at a time. Wordperfect threw away the typewriter model and managed the entire document with codes. I still have my WP12 disks, but I can only work in Word because of compatibility.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:03:12 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: smokingfrog
Utah-based Novell Inc. sued Microsoft in 2004, claiming the Redmond, Wash., company violated U.S. antitrust laws through its arrangements with other software makers when it launched Windows 95. Is this the same suit? So it took almost ten years after the fact to bring the suit, and another seven to get it to trial? And who says the American legal system is @*$#ed up.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:04:43 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: Revolting cat!
No, they’re mostly software/services now. Not a lawsuit factory.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:05:48 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: smokingfrog
I loved WordPerfect!
It made MS Word look positively third rate.
With WordPerfect, I could do absolutely everything, not so with Word.
Even now, I look to WP even though the newer versions aren't up to earlier WP versions to do the same work that it takes Word, and two or three MS programs need.
I'd love to testify in this case. Microsoft works to punish superior competitors, like Novell and force Windows' customers into using MS' inferior products!
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:06:52 PM PST
by
zerosix
(native sunflower)
To: Kirkwood
OpenOffice still has almost full WordPerfect compatibility, which Word still doesn’t.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:07:20 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: smokingfrog
The real competition was from Word*Star
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:12:53 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: smokingfrog
Talk about an old lawsuit. Windows 95 was no great shakes either... Windows 98 was a lot better.
I still use Word Perfect version 10 (2002) on my Windows 7 machine.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:18:49 PM PST
by
RDasher
("El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather")
To: bigbob
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:25:24 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: dila813
Word won due to its simplicity and not because it was more capable.
The easiest to use were word processing software by Lotus.
AmiPro to start and then Word Pro.In both they ware so easy to use. Truly the most intuitive. Word was a poorly written copy of AmiPro. In AmiPro, most tasks could happen with right click menu's, and well designed main menu's. Word Pro extended those functionalities.
MS Word was made part of Office and MS more or less bribed or forced computer builders to include it in new computers.
It is a shame Word Pro and AmiPro before it lost the give away battle. The were FAR superior products. Everything was more natural when creating or formatting a document.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:41:07 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: smokingfrog
Shades of "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run."
WordPerfect 8 can be convinced to run fairly well on Vista. I have given up trying to get it to run on Windows 7.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:53:05 PM PST
by
TChad
To: JSteff
I used them too, even used gold star, didn’t like any of them because they weren’t working with many of the printers.
HP and Word Perfect really took off with the introduction of early laser printers, killed all others because WP supported pcl natively.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:56:33 PM PST
by
dila813
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