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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9686)11/6/1999 3:06:00 AM
From: Seeker of Truth  Read Replies (2) of 54805
 
Back before windows, there were many operating systems on
many kinds of computers, ranging from small machines like
DEC's PDP8 to main frames. Each company's main frame had
a different operating system. Minicomputers had various
operating systems. If you were trained on System X and you
applied for a job which was a system Y shop, you didn't have
any chance of getting the job. It was a tower of Babel.
People spent so much time learning new operating systems! Now a generation has grown up using windows. "Everybody" uses MSFT's operating system. The tower of Babel is finished. It's like English. It's an illogical language; spelling and pronunciation are not connected. Its grammar is so complicated that only about 50% of English speakers can speak it correctly. Nonetheless it works; it's the global language now. If you want to be a scientist you have to be able to think in English. Same for Windows. I personally admire Windows no more than I do English. I'd prefer, respectively Unix and Chinese, both allowing the user more flexibility and both are easier to learn the insides of. But a standard has been established. Everybody has been "trained on" Windows. Your post does not address that issue. I'm not an owner of MSFT but I think Gates is a hero. His company did more to make computing universal than any other. If the incredible political attack by MSFT's enemies succeeds, and the company is split into parts AND there is a big drop in price, I think that the resulting parts should be gorillas.
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