From: "Randy H" 

Microsoft did field their own COBOL compiler for a while, but then they
killed that and licensed/acquired MicroFocus technology for Microsoft
COBOL, but that didn't last long, either.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3e443812$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hey, Mr. Miller...
>
> Since you're spamming even this NT group with those bombs, could I have
some
> fun, too?  Let's collect all the never-happened and quietly-died MS
products
> we can remember.  Off the top of my head:
>
> Ms Work: (not Works).  Suite-to-be.  Never happened, to my knowledge.
>
> MS Access, the comm program.  Not bad; insanely complicated.  Name
> resurrected for the database, since MS has only a limited number of
> "blanket-generic, but warm-fuzzy and vaguely powerful" nouns
in its name
> bank.
>
> Multiplan: Quite competitive for its era.  Was this actually written in
> house?  Fully?  Preserve it in amber!
>
> MS Network, with IBM.  Did they support the enterprise part-analog
broadband
> variant?
>
> MS/SCO Xenix
>
> The original standalone BASIC, a sort-of-opsys.
>
> All the classic languages, for several platforms.  Fortran, COBOL, Pascal,
> BASIC, Assembler/linker, etc.
>
> Ditto for CP/M.
>
> All the MS Home line - never kept track of these
>
> All the old games -   ditto
>
>
> Others?  Warning: set your grey matter to a 1999 date before trying to
> remember.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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