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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (14227)11/23/1997 2:31:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Reg, I am talking about choice *today*, not some past history of Window's rise to power. That is irrelevant now. It does not matter anymore how they got there, it just matters how they handle themselves now that they have arrived. There are numerous products that failed but were superior to MSFT's in almost every category. But most usually did not have much of a chance to survive against MSFT, if MSFT felt that they wanted to own a specific market. The best hope was to be bought out by MSFT. MSFT's products never had to be the best products or even excellent products to win. In some cases they were very good, but they have never had to compete on quality. This is not to say that none of their products had any quality, but that they never competed on the merits of quality. I assume you've read Nicolas Petreley's article about this. It is right on target. BTW, of course MSFT was the company most willing to write apps for Windows. The survival of their company *depended* upon it. And they won, and they have been handsomely rewarded for it. But because they have become a monopoly (notice that I am now talking about the *present*), they should not be able to leverage their position in an unfair way to guarantee that they stay on top and crush any possible alternative.
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