1 Nov
2009
1 Nov
'09
7:08 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Why I never saw my own posts!
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum
<curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
Personally, I'd disagree. I think that by & large, the simple, elegant
Micros~1 products are the stuff they bought in - PowerPoint, Visual
Basic, Hotmail, the original MS Mail. The stuff they developed
in-house tends to be baroque & needlessly complex - e.g. Exchange
Server, Access, or ActiveDirectory.
Exactly who did they buy Visual Basic from and what was the original name of
it?