Re: no Java in XP Windows

["srichter " <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

>
>For years (two decades now!) Microsoft has been able to push a new product
>into the market by simply bundling it with their operating system and
>displacing the existing market leaders.

How do you explain the success of ms office? It is not bundled with the os, ms 
charges a premium for it, and yet it outsells all of its competitors.

In regard to access to api's ... 
1. After reading the Andrew Shulman books on windows internals, I dont see why 
the techniques he uses to disassemble the api calls could not have been used by 
lotus and wp.
2. Did big users of windows, like say citibank, not get the correct api 
documentation either?  I doubt it. And I also doubt that the developers at 
lotus and wp were fooled. I think only their lawyers say so.
3. all the windows api's are calls to functions in dll's. Lotus and wp could 
have written their own versions of the api's that they suspected of being 
bogus. No?
4. Lotus and WordPerfect had plenty of dos profits to spend on writing their 
own api's if they really thought that ms was not giving them the details. But 
they chose to pocket their dos profits while ms reinvested theirs in windows. 


Not an ms appologist,

Steve Richter



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