Excuse me if this is redundant, but you're an idiot.
MS is a one trick pony. They do one thing. They leverage
their desktop monopoly, and they do that very well. IE is
an example not of how MS has the ability to catch up with
and overtake a competitor in a market they previously
weren't involved in. It's an example of how they leverage.
In fact, it's such a *great example, the federal government
and 19 states used it as an antitrust example (and won).
Because IE is a superior browser to Netscape doesn't
explain the IE marketshare. If IE didn't come loaded on
PCs; if it wasn't purposefully *welded into the operating
system (compromising your data security, btw), it wouldn't
be where it is today.
But, so what? What did that get them? Folks are using
ActiveX and VBscript instead of Java and Javascript? No.
Developers are adopting MS standards over open standards?
No. MS itself is *trying to. I can't access the support
documents on microsoft.com because I use a browser that
doesn't do the non-standard (rich experience?) MS
extentions. I needed to find out how to install Windows 98
for someone. I can't get to the damn installation
instructions. 'Rich experience', my ass.
So, they have the desktop OS, they have the browser, and
they have the MSN service. What do they have to show for
it? Nothing. Do you know why? -- no server monopoly. Not
only do they have no server monopoly, for all their
might, they can't break a 20% market share. Away from their
desktop monopoly leveraging, MS is impotent.
You said Sun ONE is just renaming existing products. Du-uh.
It's *branding -- it's branding the existing dominant
standards, and it's a pretty shrewd marketing move, in my
opinion.
-JCJ |
