Re: Moderately improved Map

[Tod Landis <landis@cruzio.com>]

  You haven't been reading.  The position Microsoft
  enjoys today is not the result of democracy and free
  play.
  
  Tod Landis
  
  David E. Y. Sarna wrote:
  
  > Cybermedia is an independent vendor. If they decide that some of the
  > Microsoft controls included in IE are beneficial to them, and they
  > choose to include them, that seems fine to me. If you are
  > constitutionally opposed to IE4, and because of that you don't buy their
  > product, then that is OK too. If there are enough like you, they would
  > have to develop an alternative. They probably think that folks like you
  > are such a small minority that the savings in development costs outweigh
  > the lost of business from folks who object to IE.
  >
  > Again, it seems to me that democracy and fair play are at work. What is
  > the problem
  >
  > Regards,
  > David E. Y. Sarna       davids@objectsoftcorp.com
  > ObjectSoft Corp. (NASDAQ:OSFT)    http://www.objectsoftcorp.com
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  > > -----Original Message-----
  > > From: claribba [SMTP:claribba@jps.net]
  > > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 1997 10:14 PM
  > > To:   Multiple recipients of list
  > > Subject:      RE: Moderately improved Map
  > >
  > > David Sarna,
  > >
  > > It was Cybermedia, as well as Visual Studio.  Plus whatever else is
  > > out
  > > there waiting in the wings that hasn't been disclosed yet.
  > >
  > > Claire Macdonald
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > > >1. What exactly is wrong with Microsoft relying on portions of IE in
  > > >building Developer Studio?
  > > >2. Yes, the new Microsoft help tools are based on html. RoboHelp
  > > (Blue
  > > >Sky Software) has tools for creating this kind of help very easily,
  > > or
  > > >converting existing help files.
  > > >3. IE4 reads the new help files perfectly. The price is right (free).
  > > >What us the  problem, exactly?
  > > >
  > > >Regards,
  > > >David E. Y. Sarna       davids@objectsoftcorp.com
  > >
  > .-