["Craig Flannagan" <craigfla at microsoft.com>] Microsoft Canada would like to visit your user group

[Rick Tomaschuk]

Check with US authorities, you may be able to get Saddam Hussein to lecture at the 
group on how to run an organization to acheive profitablility for as many as possible 
with an emphasis on dealing with the competition.

On 26 Mar 2004 at 10:34, talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:

 
> Long answer: Having gone through this battle before ten years ago with
> OS/2 and Windows 95, I'm really not interested in hearing Microsoft tell
> us all how they may have made some mistakes in the past But This Time Will
> Be Different -- they're going to get it right and the next version of
> Windows is going to be rock solid and totally secure.
> 
> These days, for me, word of mouth counts for just about everything and
> glossy ads (printed or pop-up) mean nothing.
> 
> Ever read Undocumented DOS? It's chock full of special lucky magic bits
> that Microsoft put in to help their applications beat everyone else's,
> including their Windows shell (all versions of Windows leading up to '95
> were shells, not standalone GUIs).
> 
> 
> On the other hand, Microsoft is one of the biggest employers from my alma
> mater, the University of Waterloo -- MS has thousands of very bright
> people working there. So there's a very good chance that Craig might have
> a really interesting technical discussion prepared for us.
> 
> This might even be an olive branch -- you never know.
> 
> 
> Summary: Is ASP.NET running on Linux? I don't think I want to hear about
> that, but the 64 bit future technology topic might be interesting.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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