the fake DOS error Message ..

From: w-collin Mon Jan 27 13:06:59 1992
To: bradsi. davidcol, martyta, petermi, w-clairl
Subject: The message
Cc: w-pamed
Date: Mon Jan 27 13:01:56 1992

I saw, but did not save, some of the earlier mail. Can someone send me the current draft of the text for review?

> From: w-clairl Mon Jan 27 11:32:46 1992
To: w-collin
Subject: message
Cc: martyta, w-pamed
Date: Mon Jan 27 11:30:56 1992

can you sign up for this?

> From: martyta Mon Jan 27 09:32:33 1992
To: davidcol w-clairl
Subject: bradsi, petermi, w-delonl
Cc: RE: THE message
Date: Mon Jan 27 09:25:36 PDT 1992

I would vote for Collins to come up something

> From: davidcol Sat Jan 25 13:44:56 1992
To: martyta, w-clairl
Cc: bradsi, petermi, w-delonl
Subject: THE message
Date: Sat Jan 25 13:44:05 1992

Bradsi asked us to come up with a better message for when the MS-DOS detection doesn't find MS-DOS. The message should have a spin on it that gives a better impression that Windows and MS-DOS are part of the same OS.

Who is the best person in PR to work on this with me? I'm not the best word-smither i nthe world and am hoping to get connected with someone who it. -thanks

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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04267.pdf

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From: George Forsman
To: SYS General DOS Technical Issues; Windows BU developers alias
Subject: DR-DOS vs MS-DOS and Windows
Date: Friday, May 01, 1992 2:22 PM

Ok, folks, I've been asked to explain, technically, why MS-DOS is a better platform than DR-DOS to run Windows 3.x And, sadly, I cannot think of any technical reasons. Plenty of marketing reasons come to mind, but none that actually say |"DR-DOS is not good for running Windows because ____". The fact that Windows runs on DR makes arguing the point very hard.

So, what things make DR lousy for windows. I know we did not test on DR, but we must have some idea of holes in their product.

With asbestos underware on

GeorgeF MS-DOS OEM/ISV support

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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04268.pdf

court documents in the case of Comes v Microsoft.