Re: Clinton advisers to warn that U.S. IT lead is at risk (InfoWorld)

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

>At 9:34 PM -0600 7/17/98, Mark Hinds wrote:
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>> I found this link at http://slashdot.org
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>> http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.ehwarning.htm
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>> Mark
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>Hum.  I guess this was due to MS delaying release of W98 over a weekend
>to discuss last minute negotiations with DOJ last June?  Good thing it wasn't
>delayed any more!

Just to play devil's advocate, two of the four co-chairs listed in the
article are likely to be very anti-Microsoft.  Bill Joy is co-founder of
Sun, and David Nagel was head of Apple R&D for many years (he left in the
middle of the Copland fiasco after many assurances that everything was
"finally on schedule").



--
Eric Bennett (http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/), Cornell Biochemistry Department

Windows 98 is not the first product Microsoft has botched, nor will it be
the last.  But it is the last straw. . . . Users who do install it do so at
their own risk, and IS departments are not offering support.
- Scot Petersen, PC Week Magazine