[arachne] Re: [OT] Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration

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Brian C. Murphy said:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Re Microsoft sucking up to the open source community:
> Maybe, but when is microsoft going to write the DOS device drivers for add
> on peripherals, such as CDRW'S so that Dos users can effectively use the
> many peripherals that have entered the computer world since Microsoft did
> its damndest to kill DOS.


Never. Microsoft does not support old OS's. Microsoft wants to kill
everything except Vista and whatever comes next.  Although they are
allowing XP to be used on the "100 dollar" computer instead of Linux.

Many Third World education ministries refused to order the computers
without Windows.

A sad story.
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