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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
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To: Arch who wrote (224)11/11/1997 10:23:00 PM
From: Columbo  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
What does it take to beat Microsoft?

I don't think we need another IBM, though I wouldn't mind seeing
NSCP, ORCL, and SUN.

What the industry needs are standards so everyone can compete.
Your phone system would not work if it was not for Bellcore standards
that allow telecom equipment to "talk" to competing equipment. Do you
have any idea how many standards there are? Speaking from experience,
it is truly amazing that your phone system works at all much less with
competing products.

The software industry needs standards on operating systems. None of
this crap that MS is trying to pull over on the ignorant masses. We
need standards on applications interfacing with the OS. We need
standards on interfacing applications with one another. A
Operating System is a program just like any other application. This
is what Java/JavaBeans is trying to do and it scares MS to death.

To develop quality software, you must develop well defined layers of
software. One layer can not cause errors in another layer. Period.
No excuses. These interfaces or "software contracts" are the basis
to standards. When lawyers can start suing for crappy software watch
things change quickly. Year 2000 bug?

I'm tired of having to load bloatware on my machine. I only want
what I use. Netscape isn't clean on this either.

MH #0
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