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To: znv who wrote (13832)5/19/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: BillHoo  Read Replies (3) of 213176
 
<<"that means that only about 3% of first-time buyers came home with a Mac last year. Why?">>

That is what the media had been broadcasting for the past few years.
Fear that if you buy something other than Windows, regardless of how well it performs, you will be left out of the Windows World.

You see it in the news media when they cover anything. Someone got the runs from eating Guavas from Ecuador.

Next day you get headline "Is the food we eat safe? Should there be government regulation? Then you get people who panick and spread rumors. Don't eat anything from Equador! It's poison! And they use slave labor too!

This anti-Microsoft spin is the same. There's more money to be made bashing Microsoft now that it's in vogue. Last year it was Apple because the networks needed MSFT ad dollars.

Now that everyone is doing it, the networks don't fear that MSFT will move their ad spending to another network. By making it a cogent news issue (thank God for the DOJ) the networks can now adequately report on MSFT's nastiness.

Next up. Young cub reporters who want to blow the lid on Microsoft corruption. You'll see stories about bribes to government officials. Bill Clinton will make it a Democratic party platform. "The Democrats are looking in the best interests of the little people. The small software developers who have been stifled for years by Microsoft."

The Republicans can't have that. So they jump on the bandwagon with a "Me-Too" campaign. After all Janet Reno is on their side!

Now, who's party has the most to lose in terms of campaign contributions? I hope those cub reporters are watching.

-Bill_H
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