From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: MS Excel Working As Designed
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 14:01:45 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

> 
> And that's why it sells. MS did that with DOS too. MS is a business not 
> an R&D institution.
> 

If you know about the history of Microslop, their mantra in the
early years was: "Windows ain't done until Lotus won't run."

The goal of Microslop was to eliminate the superior Lotus 123
and the superior WordPerfect by leveraging their dominance
on the desktop.

From the very beginning, Microslop was a corrupt, anti-competitive
organization that did not desire to produce superior products.
Their whole anti-competitive strategy was to quash their superior
rivals.

But did the average ignoramus asshole computer user ever notice?

Nope.  And that Microslop's only advantage.



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