Reggie, I know I should just let you go off on the necessity of a proprietary lock ( which isn't a monopoly, of course, and it's a totally new industry anyway, the laws can't possibly apply, and all that)...
But this is just nuts. You think everybody starting using netscape because of the table tags? Maybe, but I don't think so. I starting using it because it could load a web page without downloading all the sucky graphics. It worked better, that was all. You think it's too much trouble to fix your web pages? Well, nobody who wasn't a Microsoft true believer would hang out for more than a cursory glance at your site, so I imagine it doesn't make much difference. But most people think that $1000 (or $500, soon enough) PCs are a good idea, and there wouldn't be any of those around if your holy "necessity of a proprietary lock" thing was true. I know, I know, Microsoft will cleverly make use of the entire industry as its proper feudal kingdom, and Microsoft will continue to make Visual C++, in whatever the current guise is.
And all those OEMs really love Microsoft and will stick through them through thick or thin. They've been treated so well in the past, I'm sure they have only good things to look forward to in the future. As long as they ship the machines the way Microsoft builds them. And the retail consumers will continue to get what they want, the crummy old retail Win95. It's the best seller! It's what the market has chosen!
Cheers, Dan. |
