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To: Stormweaver who wrote (19147)	9/4/1999 5:09:00 AM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (1) of 64865

The public chose Windows because the dirty strong arm tatics dirty Bill used against IBM in the early 80s about putting an ugly DOS OS onto IBM PCs. The public chose Windows because the mishap by Apples and IBM OS2. Windows is a sucky, buggy product that most people I knew do not like. Bill stole Windows idea from Xerox. Frankly, as an investor, I don't give a shit about how MSFT made its money. MSFT is my 3rd largest holding behind SUNW and DELL. I don't care much about ethics when it comes down to investing. However, at work, I stayed away from MSFT product as much as possible. I used Linux, Solaris, HP-UX at work. We didn't base our decision on ethics, we based our decision on quality of the product. After using MSFT visual studio for a while and getting a "service pack" every quarter to fix bugs and still couldn't get the product right, we just had enough of it. Visual studio as a development tool has a nice user interface, but sucks big time in debugging network apps, multi-threaded apps which we do all the time. It's a low quality product just like the rest of the MSFT products. They might be able to fool an average joe blow like you, but they aren't going to fool a software architect like me. Message #19147 from James Nicoll at Sep 1 1999 9:12PM Read this one slowly Tiqueer - Microsoft does not have a monopoly OS position - there always have been other choices in the X86 operating system space and there is even more in the last few years as Solaris x86 and Linux have made their debut. The public has choosen Windows since it is the best provides the best desktop metaphor The crux of the matter is giving away software for free that other companies are charging for. Giving away Star won't help Corel or Applix too much.

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