Developers As Pawns and One-Night Stands

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 9, 2007 @01:04AM from the Microsoft-sweet-talk dept.

jcatcw writes "At the Comes vs. Microsoft antitrust case, last Friday's testimony included evidence that James Plamondon, a Microsoft technical evangelist, in a 1996 speech referred to independent software developers as 'pawns' and compared wooing them to trying to win over a one-night stand. Last week's proceedings also included testimony by Ronald Alepin, a former CTO at Fujitsu Software Corp. and currently an adviser to the law firm Morrison Foerster LLP. He said that Lotus 1-2-3 was killed, in part, by Microsoft encouraging Lotus's programmers to use the Windows API even though Microsoft's own developers found it too complicated to use." The plaintiffs have created a site that includes transcripts of testimony presented in the case.

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Re:Woo by bcat24 · 2007-01-09 03:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

What idiot modded you flamebait? You're 100% right. If you want the stock Windows look, don't do anything. If you want the Office look, you have to write some code (or download it of the net) to get it.