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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17892)	7/15/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (3) of 64865

James, You seem to have a knack at saying things that are both true and pointless at the same time (first 3 paragraphs). Win32 is proprietary in that MSFT decides it's destiny. I fault IBM for this snafu. They should have bought all the rights to MS-DOS in the beginning and published it as an open, non-proprietary standard O/S for the PC along with BIOS and the hardware spec. Then they could have donated the whole kit and kaboodle to a standards body. Then all the application vendors would have competed on a level playing field and MSFT would be just another vendor among many. There is no doubt in my mind that the ensuing competition for the PC applications market would have kept prices low & the quality high, something that has NEVER been seen to date, and never will be seen until MSFT is divested of all PC O/S control. That day may never come, however, and MSFT may wind up killing the goose that laid the golden egg if they don't realign their pricing to match the dramatic lowering of margins in the PC market.

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