Re: UNsuccessfully M$ products

[Luc-Etienne Brachotte <Luc-Etienne.Brachotte@art.alcatel.fr>]

  Christopher Pall wrote:
  > I think it would be wrong to say that Quick C/C++ or Quick
  > Basic were failures since they reappeared as different products
  > which were succesrul, VC++ and VB.
  
  In "Microsoft Secrets" they explain, what I remembered, that the Quick *
  disappeared because of Borland *quick* reactions/ability, to immediately
  put on the market better products than Microsoft's. At the time
  Microsoft was not yet well-known for its development tools. In fact
  Borland beat M$ on 2 generations of development tools, based on 2
  different architectures :
  
  - the Microsoft *, then
  - the Quick *
  
  So M$ introduced Visual *, based on a visual concept, because Borland is
  better for both the compilers and the environments.
  
  That's why M$ is now aggressively hiring every possible person from
  Borland ! I've heard that BG himself can't bear the simple name of
  Borland ;-)
  
  Borland's (at the time) Quattro Pro and Paradox were also often
  considered in PC magazines better than M$'s.
  
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