[Am-info] MICROSOFT WATCH

[John J. Urbaniak]

Mike Stephen wrote:

> Mary Jo Foley.  How many os2 users remember her name.  It went
> down in infany.  Mark Jo Foley was responsible for throwing
> out the vote that gave OS/2 Warp the aware for the most
> innovative software (for the third time).  After winning it
> twice in a row, Foley had it thrown out when for the third
> time OS/2 was held in the highest regard by the users and
> readers.  Rather than have it keep the award three years in a
> row, Mary threw out the results and decided that NT would have
> the award.

No, that wasn't Mary Jo.  I think it was Sandy Reed or something like
that.

But Mary Jo has done her share kicking us OS/2 users and developers when
we were down.

>
>
> Every Year Foley would announce the death of OS/2 From 1995
> onwards we could count on Foley doing her best for the minions
> at Microsoft.  At ever possible point she would advocate that
> OS/2 is dead....

Yup.

John