"Stephan" <ask me @ kilroy.wuz.here>wrote in message
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so, are you trying to tell me your mum works for uSoft?
I don't work for anybody
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or is this a "bait -n- switch" exercise?
In case you haven't noticed, respectable competition keeps companies from
becoming complacent.
Of course, bring on decent companies working {*word*156} software and no whining
. Adobe Photoshop is indudably the best graphic app out there. No mather how
MS and otheres try, it is the best. They work hard and well. The product
talks for it self. Netscape died in the competition. They where
conservatives, didn't dare to evolve, etc. Good bye. It's the law of the
marked. Now mozilla is taking points from Explorer, very well, MSExplorer
MUST evolve or die. It's the law of the market.
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wise to remember the tactics employed to achieve that position.
ask DEC, Apple, Netscape, IBM.... etc. (the list is long)
Look who you are talking about (APPLE, who even killed the companies that
produced the Macintosh clones in the 90s, IBM, who are not remotelly known
as a "gentlemen company") precicelly. Good you don't even mentioned the Java
zealots of Sun and company.
And I must add that even if I recogn that Windows in it's last incarnations
is a very stable and good OS, my favorite OS is the late BeOS, so I'm really
not a Windows advocate, but, comparing Windows to OsX, BeOS, heck, even OS/2
Warp I can understand, but LINUX? In the server maybe, but for the desktop,
no and thousand times no. Sorry.