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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18404)4/9/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Microsoft Pushes Case in Ads nytimes.com

I messed up in citing a CNET article when the good grey Times had weighed in already. Now that Reggie has informed me that the press is just there to sell advertising, the "biased" reporting on this matter is coming clear. Everybody's covering it just to shake Bill down for some good ad dollars. Don't believe the stories, believe the ads! Anyway, there's not much more here, but I got to quote the conclusion. The Times' ironic tone rules again.

The ad suggests that Microsoft's products represent a great industrial wave of progress in the United States that is threatened by government interference.

Microsoft has argued that integrating new features into its products is a clear consumer benefit, but its critics and competitors say that integration instead locks customers into a single monolithic program and impedes innovation.

I'd say the critics and competitors line would be something we'd all agree with, at least the locking customers into a single monolithic program part, in something other than the legal context. I mean, that's the whole point of the "proprietary lock", right? What the heck, Bill's taking us where we want to go! It's what the market demands! We got Michael Dell's word on that last one, and he wouldn't lie just to suck up to Bill, would he?

Cheers, Dan.
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