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To: JC Jaros who wrote (25186)	12/21/1999 1:00:00 AM
From: fuzzymath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

MSFT blackmails its customers, unlike T, and also unlike IBM. T is a great huge company, that actually tries to care about its customers despite its size. IBM is turning into another great huge company. MSFT has always tried to burn its customers by forcing them to debug its software and shell out hundreds of dollars again and again and again to remain "compatible" with other MSFT systems and software, etc. MSFT innovates, yes, but they USE their innovation to blackmail their customers: pay me $X or else critical application Y will no longer work properly with critical application Z that you just invested $Q in by purchasing our latest Z version. Kevin Farnham

To: JC Jaros who wrote (25186)	12/21/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

You torture me with this, Q. :) No! Stop! Stop! Too sexy! Too sexy! I just think they're going to sell a shtload of W2K. There are 3 factors working against them, with which we are all droningly familiar: application paradigm shift (i.e., Sun's vision), the DOJ, and Linux incursion, in decreasing order of importance. In calendar 2000, while all of those things will continue to gain momentum, I don't think any* of them, or indeed all of them combined, will outweigh the largest pent-up demand of them all: the need for a desktop operating system that runs Win32 applications, supports current technology (like, duh, power management and USB), and actually works. Forget servers; if W2K is such a beast on the desktop, M$FT will get its outrageous price tag paid to them tens or hundreds of millions of times. This isn't a story of Itanic or 8-way thises and thats or commodity supercomputers or any of the other bogus fantasies purveyed by the various M$FT fanatics. It's simply a story of people not being tired of the applications they use every day, but being plenty tired of the POS operating systems they run on. If that ends your torture, well and good. If not, so much the better <g>. --QS