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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (108582)4/30/2000 4:23:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1571929
 
Bill, <We have seen computer prices fall but not the OS and Apps....they have risen in just the monopolistic way you deny.>

If that's the case, how come the price of software in general hasn't fallen like computer prices? Games still cost between $40 and $60. Applications and utilities (e.g. virus scanners, tax and finance programs, music and audio tools) range anywhere from $30 to $200, depending on a lot of factors. The same was true seven years ago as it is today. And certainly Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on those market segments of software.

Don't get me wrong, I do think Microsoft should be dinged for blatantly crossing over the line. But I don't think MS is to blame for software prices not falling in tandem with hardware prices. Instead, blame hardware for advancing much, much faster than software. For instance, we can get GHz computers today which are three times the speed of computers just two years ago. Yet can anyone say that their software has three times the reliability or useability of software back then? Of course not. (Maybe three times the bloat.)

Tenchusatsu

P.S. - I do think breaking Microsoft up into two companies is too extreme a punishment, although it does sound like an interesting thing for Microsoft to do voluntarily (i.e. on Microsoft's terms, not on the government's).
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