<NT, IE4, Normandy, NetPC and all the recent ballyhooed silver-bullet initiatives Microsoft is shouting about are not going to lead their categories.>
Do you really, really believe that Bill? NT marketshare is growing a lot faster than NSCP's and I believe NSCP will do well. Even NSCP beleives IE4 may lead in market share (read Gerry's posts), much of computerdom agrees.
The NetPC stuff is a bunch of marketing garbage, just like the NC. Everybody wants a fully capable machine, they just want less headaches. Once MSFT provides for admin to be performed centrally from the server, what will be the purpose of an NC or NetPC? Just get a cheaper machine. Right now I have three NC's they are called a 286, 386, and 486 :-) I just need to slap a few more 8 dollar simms in and Voila :-)
<Control is the only thing Microsoft understands. They never had it in the enterprise, and they're losing it on the desktop. >
They never had it in the enterprise because they are just going after the enterprise, and are doing a damn good job may I add. Losing it on the desktop?
<Once a company (a small one at that) demonstrated conclusively that the Microsoft platform wasn't essential, Microsoft lost control>
When did this happen? Today, you are not sounding like the intelligent investor that I think you are, Bill? Got a little MSFT hate fever running high?
Personally, I am a little ill myself (How could Tyson let this happen, and by HOLYFIELD on top of it. Yeah, I know he has heart and all, but enough to beat Tyson, doubtful. Brooklyn will never be the same. If I mess up a trade, you know why. And absolutely no comparisons between Tyson and MSFT, cause Gates could probably take Tyson out right about now with the way he is figthing, especially if Holyfield could). |
