Re: Microsoft blames Real Networks bugs for problems

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Brett Glass on 7/24/98 5:43 PM ---

>The "response" from Gates to Glaser sure looks as if it were generated by a
>mail-answering "'bot," which saw the word "Washington" and spit out a
>canned phrase. On a recent trip to DC, a Senate aide demonstrated to me the
>"boilerplate letter writer" used by her fellow staffers, and showed me how
>easy it was to generate nonsense with it.

As a measure of their desperation, I like to count the number of times 
the Microsoft mouthpiece uses the word "disappointing" in their 
statements. Really-- Gates uses it constantly when under pressure, and so 
do his minions.

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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   It is disappointing to see people back in Washington thinking
   that the PC industry is a bad thing. --- Bill Gates