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

To: Thunder who wrote (47027)	6/20/2000 9:41:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Perhaps you can name the companies that have gone under, due to OS enhancement, and more importantly explain how consumers have been harmed in such process. Not theoretically, but factually. The one I am most familiar with is Borland. RIP About 10 years ago they had the most advanced most efficient compilers for the PC environment. Their libraries supported more graphics, more sound interfaces, and the first of the IDE controls. They introduced object programming to the PC world. The Microsoft compilers were okay, but definitely #2. Once windows came out, Microsoft no longer published complete interfaces to the OS. They did publish compilers that used the new interfaces. So like Adobe and Corel soon will be, they were late by 6 months getting a compiler on windows. As soon as they did there were updates and innovations to windows, which were not public. Any windows application that a programmer wished to compile would already be late since the parts of the interface that Microsoft did publish were not available until Microsoft's own applications were complete. (It was possible to get some earlier information if you paid the bucks to become a Microsoft Solutions Partner and agreed to use their tools). This cycle was repeated over and over. Sometimes there was 3 or more updates to the compilers which were released in a years time just to keep running on the platform. In the end Borland was no more. Once there was no major competition Microsoft changed it's compilers such that they will not produce code for any platform but Windows and the development community has few alternatives. Soon you can have a ring side seat to see this process repeated, same tactic, new victims. TP