[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Internal Microsoft stuff

tima@agora.rain.com (Tim Anderson) (04/23/91)

>Anyway, BCC+ seems to work like a charm--why can't Microsoft write compilers?
>Do they actually use their own?  Maybe that's why it takes them so long to
>come out with new software...  
>
>Aaron Wallace

That's one of the funniest things that Micromoron (oops, Microsoft) does.
After asking someone 'at Microsoft' some questions regarding painfully 
obvious utilities, platforms, etc, etc, he stated "Oh, we've had that stuff
internally for years..." 

Now, about those hooks into the operating system that they don't tell anyone
about. I wonder how many wonderous things they are going to put into dos5.0
for 'internal use only'. I just hope the FTC slaps them silly for pulling
stunts like this. I'm not holding my breath, however. Lets just hope that they
make the silly thing re-entrant. I'm not holding my breath, however.

tima@agora.rain.com

PS: As much as I dislike Micormoron, I really really like their mice, Word
and EXCELL are pretty darn cool, and we are currently porting our application
to Win3. I still don't like them. We will be using BCC+, if I can ever fit
C600, BCC+, Brief and DOS on a 33meg partition...