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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (42015)4/14/2000 1:41:00 AM
From: mozek  Respond to of 74651
 
Unless you advocate screwing customers, you should be able to understand that with the massive success of Windows 3.x, a multitasking and GUI environment over DOS, huge numbers of third party applications and utilities took advantage of every hook, nook, and cranny of the environment.

For Microsoft, the success was a double edged sword. They could either leave behind customers and support costs of another Windows derivative in favor of a new OS architecture, as a real monopoly with nothing to lose might consider, or concentrate on the most massive backwards compatibility effort in history, which is what they did.

Whether you believe it or not, Microsoft was thinking of customers by providing the more compatible Win95 solution as well as the more industrial strength, but less compatible/user friendly NT at the same time. Customers chose the more user friendly solution, as they continued to do with Win98. At the same time, Microsoft continues to focus on making NT more consumer friendly with Windows 2000 and beyond.

Another approach would be to pull the plug on the original Windows code base and focus exclusively on NT, ignoring their customers. Of course, that would have been bad both for customers and Microsoft in light of the competitive environment.

Mike



To: Charles Tutt who wrote (42015)4/14/2000 7:27:00 AM
From: SunSpot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
There's one big reason why you should invest into Microsoft: Money. What Microsoft is good at, is marketing and earning money. They've always been good at and they are still good at it.

If you compare Microsoft products with products from other companies you will always be able to make comparisons, that show that either the first or the second product is best. But what matters is who makes the money.


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