<WP had, MS took it away> How is that? MS offered a competing product, for which they charged a stiff fee, and it beat WP in the marketplace. What's wrong with that? How is it "taking away"?
<C++ compiler (at least 2 or 3 competitors, MS took it away)> Again, the MSVC was a competing product, and not an inexpensive one. Are you saying that they're not allowed to compete? <Instant Messaging> MS hardly dominates. To the best of my knowledge, AIM is still the market leader, at least in the US.. <there was a contributor here a little while ago that said that he was offered what amounted to change for his dos command line history functionality, he refused and MS announced that piece o'crap DOSKEY.> Yes, actually that was me. I didn't like it much, but I never thought that what they did was unfair. They perceived a customer need; I turned them down; they wrote their own. What were they supposed to do? They perceived a customer need, I didn't cooperate, and at that point they felt it was cheaper to roll their own than to raise the offer. What's unfair about that? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
