I assume we all have pondered the reason why Microsoft invested $150,000,000. Our conciliatory belief is that it is to help Apple in these times of trouble, and partly on Microsoft's side that they will continue to receive revenue from the sale of the Microsoft office suite for the Macintosh and for the continued existence of Apple. We all wished.
Microsoft knows all too well that the majority of Macintosh users would rather crawl into a hole and die than to settle for Windows 95. I can tell you from experience that using Windows 95 instead of the Mac O/S, is not the same. It is like settling for less. Like what my dad said one time, you settle for less -- that is what you get -- less. You know the rest.
Now back to the point of contention. Remember when Apple sued Microsoft for software infringement? Not a lot of people knew that Apple had licensed the interface, albeit with twisted arms. Did Apple learn from this experience? I do not think so. What Apple did not realize from this latest maneuver by Bill Gates, is that Apple got suckered again. Apple should have known that Microsoft does not lend a helping hand. Rather, Bill Gates is after a bigger slice of the pie. The biggest pie in the sky that has ever been placed in front of Bill Gates -- the internet -- and most of all, your browser's presence on that plate. This is the only reason. Period.
Bill Gates has already won the O/S war. What better way to cozy up to your former enemy than to insert your own browser in their face without their knowing of the internet's potential. A few years from now Apple will wise up to the situation and by that time it will be too late. Apple would have learned by then that the desktop is your territory and within the desktop is the key to the internet. Apple have just let the enemy in, handed the key to Bill Gates and shot themselves in the foot again. Gawd, how soon they forget! |
