My mother, age 75, just went to Circuit City and bought a computer for
$800.00. W98 included. She was sending e-mail the next day. Now is this
because of Microsoft, no not really but their marketing muscle is primarily
responsible for the wide-spread acceptance of the electronic media. Sure the
Apple in it's day was the best and easiest machine to use. A really great
machine and OS, but Apple blew it totally and is now just a curiosity and a
how-not-to-do-it lesson in B-school. Actually the Internet, Mosaic, Apache,
Cisco, Linux, hubs, Ethernet, WWW, TV, CD and cable are more responsible
for the new world order. It only appears that Microsoft runs it all. For all
the bashing they receive, they still maintain a pretty impressive overall
share of the market. Their day'll probably come too, just like IBM, and just
like IBM they'll re-invent themselves into something for the new times.
WINTEL, or maybe WINAMD, of WINCytrix is more or less here for the duration,
say 10~15 more years. Microsoft's legacy will always be as the software
vendor for the masses. Great code, no, good code, maybe. Just as IBM ushered
in gorilla-like the age of mainframes so has Microsoft ushered in the age of
gorilla-code for the masses. Wish I bought them at IPO.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 9:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Why not NT?
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Magowan, Richard M. (ITS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >from a former MS basher, still not crazy about them but they did change
> the
> >world.
>
> Could you elaborate on how you think they changed the world.
>
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> In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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