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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, John Fieber wrote:

> This microsoft quote from an infoworld article caught my eye:
> 
>  "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving
>   it down the throats of our users," Maritz said regarding the concept
>   of delivering JFCs on top of the Windows operating system. 
> 
> So, microsoft has decided to change their ways?

Probably not.  I parse that to mean, "We will ship and shove down our
users throats another bloated OS that does not include JFCs.".


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