Get your ringside seat for the trial of the century zdnet.com
Just to followup, I wasn't the only guy to see a certain irony in the "Media Circus" appeal line.
The point about reporters screwing up is laughable. Poor Microsoft will just have to take its chances. Does the company have something to hide? Maybe it's worried that more of that office rhetoric about destroying rivals will be bandied about. If the DOJ doesn't have better evidence than Microsoft executives feeling the normal effects of testosterone on a given day, the case is DOA.
I share the view that Angela Gunn expressed in her recent column in Yahoo Internet Life magazine. Microsoft should pay more attention to writing good software than to storm trooping into its 1,479th market. Windows remains incredibly frustrating to use, and I've always wondered why Microsoft doesn't put the same effort into Windows 9x as it claims to put into NT. After all, Windows 9x is the software we use.
Dodge just doesn't understand standard Microsoft business practice. We may use Windows 9x now, but it's the end of the line. Bill says NT is what we want next, so NT is what the customers demand! It's where we want to go! In the postmodern economic sense anyway. And NT5 will be out Real Soon Now. Yeah, the PR line was that Windows 98 was supposed to suck less, but since the entire Windows 95 team was moved over to IE, who was supposed to make that happen anyway? On the other hand, there seems to be a consensus that IE4 sort of sucks more than its predecessor, so maybe none of it makes any difference. The "new features" chorus is drowning out the other side, at least as orchestrated by the marketing peers.
Cheers, Dan. |
