Re: [ILUG] M$

From: Mike Knell (mike.knell at domain cs.tcd.ie)
Date: Mon 24 May 1999 - 18:59:51 IST

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<dollar at domain csn.ul.ie> wrote on 24/5/99 18:48:

>There hard ware isn't bad
>because they licence out the
>name to a hardeware
>company!
(snip)

That's not what their web pages say - if I read the marketspeak right,
it's a seperate group within Microsoft, not a licensed name.

http://www.microsoft.com/products/hardware/backgnd.htm
is really quite interesting - the first MS mouse was introduced in 1983,
and of a build of 100,000 they sold only 5000...

Mike "that bloody Barney thing, however.." K.

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