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Disregarding your other comments, which I think are irrelevant to the topic, I'm interested in this: > changing platform APIs to make competing word processors
by kyberias 11y ago
Disregarding your other comments, which I think are irrelevant to the topic, I'm interested in this:
> changing platform APIs to make competing word processors and spreadsheet programs incompatible wasn't a fine thing
You claim that the only reason Word succeeded in competing with e.g. WordPerfect, was by "changing platform APIs".
Could you be more specific? What OS, application and exactly what APIs?