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> "Bill Gates ordered to all application business units to include checking routines of operating environments and if it is Microsoft DOS, nothing will happen.
by jakear 7y ago
> "Bill Gates ordered to all application business units to include checking routines of operating environments and if it is Microsoft DOS, nothing will happen. But if it is non MS-DOS (such as DR-DOS), application will display messages saying that 'This application has been developed and tested for Microsoft MS-DOS. Since you use different environment, this application may not work correctly . . .' "
That seems entirely reasonable. If you're selling software and you've tested it for a particular OS, and someone using it isn't on the OS, why wouldn't you notify them that issues they experience could likely be resolved by switching to a supported OS?
Anti-competitive would be preventing it from working at all on different operating systems.
- dredmorbius 7y agoIn the context of many other cited statements and testimony, the warning had no basis in fact, and was aimed principally at chilling the market for DRDOS.
- pests 7y agoWe have the same today. Web apps will have sometimes been tested for only one browser. I've definitely seen a warning stating to switch to Chrome for example when using FF.