Windows 2000

[David Gaskill]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:03:11 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Monday, December 27, 1999, 9:48:41 AM, David wrote:
>> I'm probably wrong again but I thought that Microsoft spelt their name with
>> an S rather than a dollar sign...
>
>    I might be wrong but I thought Microsoft just got sued by the federal
>government and several states for illegal anticompetative practices including
>changing the underlying API to break competitors codes.
>
>    Outlook Express, PMMail2000.
>
>    Nah, I'm wrong.  :P

No, no, I think you are very probably right - my eyes have been opened.  

I did not realise that the changed API in Windows 2000 broke both PMMail 
*and* Outlook Express - is there no limit to the cunning of this organisation? I 
can already hear Microsoft's counsel addressing the judge in the anti-trust 
action. 

"My Lord, (I don't know how you address judges in America), my clients only 
wish is to behave even-handedly for the betterment of all mankind. When an 
API was changed which had the effect of causing problems for PMMail my 
clients went to great lengths to ensure that it also caused problems for their 
own mail client,  Outlook Express. Mr Gates will now give a demonstration of 
Outlook Express crashing in Windows 2000" 

Very probably at this point the Attorney-General will resign and Bill will feel 
justified in taking a taxi home rather than the bus he had originally intended....

David