Re: Micro-Soft site:wikipedia.org

From: Dave (dave.cooper_at_mygaff0.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:51:20 +0000

Scott M. wrote:

> The name came from the merging of the two words "micro software", but
> that is not (nor, was it ever) the name of the company. That's why
> I asked you why you keep writing it as Micro-Soft.

> Then you came back with some cryptic reply that I should just
> understand why you use the company name incorrectly. Hey, if you
> "like" to refer to Microsoft as Micro-Soft, that's fine.

> But, you could have just said up front (when asked) that you like to
> call it by the wrong name, instead of sending people on wild Google
> chases.

Just a tad sensitive about the name are we ? The name Microsoft is a
compound of three words 'Micro' 'Computer' and 'Software'. Drop
'computer' and we get 'micro' and 'software'. Drop the end off
'software' and append it to 'micro' and what do we get 'micro-soft'.
Drop the hyphen and we arrive at 'Microsoft'.

Micro-soft was the name of the company when first formed. On the Web
there are pictures of a sign on the wall at company headquarters that
has 'Micro-soft' on it. Gates himself refers to Micro-soft in a letter
to Allen. He also used that phrase in that infamous letter to the
hobbyist market.

"… As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your
software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share.
Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? …

One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. .

Bill Gates, General Partner, Micro-Soft (1976) "

http://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/teaching/lectures/pptlectures/PersonalComputing.ppt

If it wasn't the name of the company then why would Gates himself say
'Micro-soft' ? And why is a little hyphen so bothersome to you that you
are compelled to jump to the defence of micro-soft against this
imaginary slight. Is it deep down you realise what a two-bit company it
really is.

'Microsoft Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a
sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for
a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that
can't stand one bit of competition'

. "We are still called Micro-soft, not Macro-hard, Micro-services or
Micro-printers," Steve Ballmer

http://www.managementconsultancy.co.uk/features/1138030

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