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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Rebel on November 03, 2002, 02:41:25 PM

Title: WoA article by John Chandler (Suite101)
Post by: Rebel on November 03, 2002, 02:41:25 PM

Read it here (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1365/96122)

Title: Re: WoA article by John Chandler (Suite101)
Post by: System on November 03, 2002, 04:03:22 PM

Nice article of John, as usual.

Title: Re: WoA article by John Chandler (Suite101)
Post by: HeUnique on November 03, 2002, 04:07:51 PM

I know that many people were wondering - what will this bring to MS?

The answer is pretty simple - sales, sales and sales. Ask many techies and you would hear that back then, Amiga had the best games. period. MS people do remember Amiga quite well, and they signed a deal with Amiga Inc.

Amiga will get some money from the sales (but NOT all of it), and Microsoft will get some too, and that of-course will encourage sales of PocketPC/SmartPhone. After all - just like in the console area: it doesn't matter how bazillion polygons or how many millions of colors you can show - it's the content! Anyone remember the days of the competition between Commodore 64 and Atari 800/XL? who had more games? Commodore. Who was easier to program? Atari (well, at least in basic, with it's Atari DOS, etc).

MS has done this before - look at Windows 2000 and Windows XP - you'll see the disk defragment tool which is not written by MS, but from another company - that company (can't remember it's name) gets money from MS for their app, and people can upgrade to the fully commercial defragment tool. MS on it's side gets a hack of a good defrag tool..

So, congratulations to Bill and the Amiga Inc. team. Hope to see AOS 4.0 out of beta soon..

This reminds me a small question - does any beta tester managed to run Mac OS X on his beta board using MOL?

Thanks,
Hetz

Title: Re: WoA article by John Chandler (Suite101)
Post by: SilvrDrgn on November 03, 2002, 04:17:41 PM

Good article!

Title: Re: WoA article by John Chandler (Suite101)
Post by: odin on November 03, 2002, 04:48:42 PM

I must concur...nice clean article indeed.

Title: Re: WoA article by John Chandler (Suite101)
Post by: Dagon on November 04, 2002, 01:54:09 AM

It is nice to have M$ (even if I hate them :-P) as partners. That way we win popularity and money.

Cool article