Re: EVIL Matrox Graphics Inc , STEALS MGA Settings/VIRTUAL DESKTOP from Windows 98, 2000 etc

[J. Clarke]

rogerclive@rock.com wrote:

> Perhaps, there is no bigger sleazy company in the entire Maple Republic
> ( Canada ) than Matrox Graphics Inc.
> 
> I paid $100+ through my nose circa 1999 for Matrox Millenium II and
> Mystique.
> 
> It works well under NT4.0 however, a month ago I upgraded to Win 98.
> Guess what?
> 
> The main feature in the Matrox Inc Video cards was their desktop, and
> the essence
> was in "MGA Settings" . Here you could make a virtual desktop four
> times or more
> than your monitor area. then using a touchpad with proper acceleration
> you could
> pan from one end to the other by a single stroke on your touch pad. It
> was extremely
> helpful and allowed you to do work on a small cheap monitor or LCD with
> the comfort
> of a large screen.
> 
> Guess what this evil master-mind did ? In the software for Win 98, Win
> 2K and perhaps other versions, it downgraded its desktop in a clearly
> identifiable
> and treacherous way. It added a whole bunch of non-sequitor bells and
> whistles
> and robbed its customers of the jewel. The virtual desktop.
> 
> What irritated me most about these crooked and evil canadians is that
> they lecture
> the whole world about environmentalism and environment. What this
> criminally evil
> company has done is: It has created pollution worth $150 or so, more
> exactly
> the cost/selling price of the card for every card that will be thrown
> away
> and destroyed because they stole away the main module and compiled the
> desktop
> software without it.
> 
> I have put this analysis over the months. I ask every potential
> customer of their
> cards to ask this company if they are going to play this
> evil-intentioned and
> thinly disguised game with all their cards. I urge you to refuse of
> bycott their
> products ... till they rectify their negative sum business strategy.
> 
> Matrox must have sold atleast 200,000 such cards. We are talking about
> 20 million dollars worth of pollution and destruction.
> 
> A deceived Customer
> 
> The Essential question:
> Cant this company recompile the old driver software which suppored
> virtual desktop or the "MGA Settings" feature (which allowed you to
> change the size of view area and displayed area independently) with the
> libraries of later microsoft operating systems ?

What are you on about?  I've got virtual desktop working fine on Windows 98
and Windows 2000.

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--John
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