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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (20598)	6/11/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

100% of the market as the only DOS suppliers? Good Example, (even though IBM and Digital Research also sold DOS). The big difference was that DOS was a well defined operating system and there were many companies writing applications, including Microsoft. The companies competed on innovation and quality. Microsoft had a sizeable but minority share of the application market. With the windows would Microsoft quit telling anyone but their own writers how the interface was structured and what the interface was. No one else could offer the same functionality because it was all hidden. Don't be so foolish as to think Microsoft had the only clever programmers and marketing staff in the world. They crushed the rest of the software industry through secrecy of the monopoly interface, endless secret changes to the interface, and vapor ware announcements to cut demand for any competetor products. When that didn't work they strongarmed 3rd parties not to carry competing products. Gates and Co. are bad Americans. TP