Most of this I can't comment on ... tech stuff I've never needed to know, etc.
On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 10:29:17 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: <snip> > M$ does what it thinks the people want, and they pretty much are correct. > They would sell dog sh*t as long people would buy it. However, I must disagree with the foregoing. M$ does *not* provide what "the people want"; M$ decides what the people should want, and then spends and spends [an advertising budget bigger than IBM's R&D allocations] to make certain that the people want what M$ wants the people to want. If JC's daddy could find an endless source of dog shit, and if his serfs could figure out how to store it, ship it, etc., and his brainwashing experts could come up with a marketing plan, then M$ would do its best to have people standing in line outside stores -- eager to get their own box of M$ dog shit on the official day of release. Microsoft did not "earn" market share through producing decent software that people used and recommended to others. Microsoft bought the market, bought PC magazine reviews with advertsing money, etc etc etc. If the software had been competitive and honestly better than what was available, then that would have been fair. But M$ software has never been "better"; it has only been advertised better and shoved down the throats of computer users better. l.d. P.S. Reference above to "JC's daddy" is not blasthemy on my part; BG actually did name his first born J.C. -- Jennifer Cathline -- and I think it wasn't an accident. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
