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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Mark Marcellus who wrote (49808)7/26/2001 8:11:08 PM
From: Pete Young  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Apple could have succeeded. The worst thing that ever happened to them was winning that lawsuit against Franklin in the 80's. Steve Jobs' vision of ruling the world had him controlling the OS AND the hardware, which was a big mistake. MSFT ceded the hardware to others and stayed within their core competencies. This is why they prevailed

But this didn't keep MSFT from keeping a rigorous hold on what could and couldn't happen to the core hardware of the PC. (ie; WinTel)

I think the central thing that MSFT provided to the PC world was standardization (much like that other much-maligned monopoly, Standard Oil). Standardization on how programs could interact with the hardware. Standardization on user interface, standarization on how hardware makers could interact with the OS. The result was the boom of the 90's.

Now we see them pursuing standardization of privacy concerns on the Internet via Hailstorm and Passport (since the rest of the industry is so busy fighting each other and their customers to come up with decent laws that we can all support), standardization of the user interface to the Internet, standardization of how Internet sites interact with each other via XML.

Sound familiar?
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