Oh bloody hell...here we go again.
They should have flashlights for some of you guys so you don't have to bash in the dark.
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Okay, let's talk....
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vance43211 -
they had the market, then they really got the market
then they took the market and destroy everybody else
Sounds like standard business practice to me.
Anyone else know of a company whose policy it is to co-exist happily with major competitors?
vance43211 - I don't have anything against microsoft
Liar.
vance43211 - and the fact you have to pay for each copy
do you know that longhorn is going to be leased to you?
You could lease Windows 95. Lots of companies lease Windows. Why should Longhorn be different? And if you don't like paying for new OS's, don't get a new OS. The MS programmers have to get paid somehow.
mayaseattle - ms is a failure where quality is concerned because bill gates dosent know a thing about how to create successful quality products and niether do his employees....walk into any "meetings" and you will know what i mean
Okay, first off, Bill-Gates doesn't design jack anymore. He's a disconnected figurehead of a company he's practically retired from, and has been for years. Get off it.
And where the hell do you get the notion that MS doesn't produce "successful" products? I suppose .NET, Outlook, MS-Exchange Server, Visual Studio, MDAC, etc, weren't highly successful? Better go tell the millions of devs and techs who use them.
Kevz - Sucess is in the hands of the Achiever
Seriously. If other OS makers were so much better, so much more compatable, innovative, creative, user-friendly, industry-recognized, and deployable, they would be grabbing the user/corporate market.
Funny...In 21 years, they STILL haven't come up to snuff.