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To: Steve Lee who wrote (44813)8/30/2001 4:39:55 PM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
I agree. One of the reasons why DEC died and IBM was nearly brought down is that they both dismissed the PC as a "toy computer" for too long. This is the essence of how "disruptive technology" works--it is "clearly inferior" until suddenly it isn't and its too late for incumbents to react.

Those who blithely dismiss Windows as a "toy OS, not suitable for 'serious' business use" risk making the same error. A lot of people who unthinkingly criticize Windows are basing their views on non-current (sometimes distantly so) versions of the OS. Windows 2000 is a very good OS and Windows XP is better still. The essence of the Wintel threat was never that any particular generation was perfect but rather the trajectory that it was following and the near-infinite financial and technical resources that are behind it.
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