Re: Can Microsoft be trusted?

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/15/05

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    Microsoft can choose NOT to supply "native" support, as it sees fit. OF
    COURSE others can write the drivers. There is nothing to stop them from
    doing so. But Microsoft "does NOT" have any obligation to supply them as
    part of the O/S. Is that clear now! 

    -- 
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Alun Jones" <alun@texis.invalid> wrote in message 
news:TOadnZe_CcCuNdXeRVn-2A@comcast.com...
> "Imhotep" <Imhotep@nospam.net> wrote in message 
> news:S7-dnVwYL72VL9neRVn-tQ@adelphia.com...
>> Richard Urban wrote:
>>
>>> They certainly CAN pick the format that they want to implement in their
>>> operating system!
>>
>> Since most hardware vendors write their own drivers why should MS, or any
>> software company, care? In fact, they should support them all, well 
>> unless
>> there are other motives involved...and you are Microsoft...
>
> You seem to be a little self-contradictory here.
>
> "Since most hardware vendors write their own drivers," surely it's 
> immaterial to you what MS supports or does not support, or recommends or 
> does not recommend?
>
> How, indeed, can Microsoft support or not support any of these, if they 
> are not responsible for writing the drivers?
>
> Do you have a point, or are you simply trying to find or construct 'facts' 
> that support your opinion of Microsoft?
>
> Rational discourse consists of finding facts and constructing an opinion, 
> not the other way around.
>
> Alun.
> ~~~~
>
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