The Microsoft Myth
Microsoft's product are all inferior...
Well, Word Perfect was rejected when they released a buggy, horrible product ported over from DOS to Windows. WP tried to hang on to an existing customer base and that's all the product has been able to manage. A lot of folks use Apple, Palm Pilot and other hardware and software products because they are superior to Microsoft offerings. Your bogus claims about Corel's products is simply a convenient argument with no factual basis. Sales are something on the order of $100 using reasonable accounting measures. Now, Microsoft sells about 10,000 million of Microsoft Office alone, using their ultra-conservative accounting measures. $100 million using aggressive revenue recognition versus $10,000 million using conservative methods by Microsoft. $100 million and shrinking versus $10,000 million and growing. 100 versus 10,000. A mere one percent of dwindling revenues from a washed up product based on accounting measures that are suspect.
Corel doesn't have the money, the personell or the ability to produce a superior product. They didn't inherit anything close to a superior product, either. Corel's suite is not a single product but something that was slapped together well after several the products were on their way out. Nobody is going to believe that just because you claim Corel products are superior that any of them are. You just sound foolish.
I still use Netscape but the general consensus is that the ball has been dropped and that the current vintage of the Netscape browser is inferior to Microsoft's. Most people, even Linux fanatics, concede this. We have to, so that something will be done about it and, fortunately, we are looking forward to the next release. Stop blindly assuming that the massively dominant products offered by Microsoft are, for inexplicable reasons, inferior. Rest assured that Linux developers (not Corel, they are CD-ROM burners only) don't assume that. |
