Posted by wizard on May 29, 1998 at 07:29:49:
Whooooh! ...Back the Truck up! ... When exactly did this "Monopoly" talk start?... Let's see,`bout the time Slick Willie needed cover for one of his many missadventures (who remembers which one). It has, however, proven to be very good cover so "they" continue to use it. While we're all in here trashing Bill Gates company, he's merrily trashing America! (anyone notice ANY of the China connections?)
This is by far one of the goofiest wild goose chases yet! Have any of you "MS trashers" actually read any of the charges against the Microsoft Company?... Not one makes any sense at all, It's like an office full of old paper pushers complaining about having to do something/anything new (like learn how to use a computer!). I know, I've taught "pencil and paper" office people how to use these things, and the "complaints' are exactly the same. Mostly made out of ignorance and frustration. If the justice department wants to get into this, the least they should do is get people who understand what they're doing (Janet Reno uses a pencil and paper `cause she has no clue how to operate a computer ... Hillery Clinton took "E-mail lessons" recently so she could use the internet for something)
Do any of you "trashers" remember HOW MS got the upper hand?... I do, open/free access to source code (anyone can write a windows program), good marketing(remember IBM, Xerox, or Mac's advertising?) and public acceptance of their product(s)(Who twisted your arm to buy Win3.1?).
And then there's the upgrade debate ... the "wheel" part ... I suppose(suppose H**l, I'm reading it on this page!) some of you would rather "things stayed the same", like maybe the wheel ... `first one was probably solid wood, then I'll bet came bent wood with spokes, then iron sheathing, bearings, cut to rubber, innertubes, metal hubs, tread, radials, and now "flat proof" tires ... That's just wagons and cars, add gears, pullys.. etc. That development took, what, 30-40 THOUSAND years?... And it's one concept. This invention has been around for 200 years (I'm being fair here the first automated loom was about then), the technology most of us are using is 17 years old, the OS (Win95) is 3 ... In less than one life time we have gone from an "interesting toy" to a "functional tool", in most cases "backward" and "cross platform" compatable as far as I've ever needed to go. Would some of you out there rather wait a couple generations, or eons for the next development? Then you would not have to "spend time" learning how to "save more time" and get more done.
These things, computers, are not like your new car, where you just get in and drive(even that, most of us had to learn to do), or your new television that you plug in and watch(ha,ha .. you had to learn that too). They are complex tools, in the process of development, that need to be studied and learned in order to be useful and effective. Right now the operating system of choice is Windows, I dare say that most people using these things(computers) these days have no idea what it (Windows) can do or even why they have it/them (Windows/computers) let alone what should be included as part of an operating system or what should be separate programs. We do, however, claim to live in a free market economy where the buyer decides who will survive and who will fall, where a company can develope and market products that people will buy. Microsoft has not been "bullying" anyone, they are simply doing a better job of selling a product.
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