To: Niels Larsen who wrote (66358 ) 3/24/2002 10:57:30 AM From: John F. Dowd Respond to NL and All: Oh doom and gloom. In the history of the automobile and every other high value added product the trick for each industry was introducing ever increasingly more expensive cars that justified the higher price due to the incorporation of more and more features unlike what those who would seek to arrange the demise of MSFT have proposed for MSFT's OS. The box makers will have to innovate and create new features. Docking for smart phone/PDA's that sync up and charge up by placing them in a slot in the box. Wirelessly connected monitors that serve the function of Slide Projector,movie projector TV and web browser no matter they are place throughout the home. The incorporation of computers into cars. With this, new killer applications will have to be continually introduced. Applications as powerful as the spread sheet was when it was first introduced. Then all of this has to be marketed after development and that is why I am betting on MSFT; they have this vision and will lead the way. That is why their detractors and enemies are so intent on reducing the functionality of the O/S. They would have had Ford and GM supply cars with perhaps only the chassis and body and then would have required Ford and GM dealers to stock all manner of engines, radios, hydraulic systems, transmissions, tires, brake assemblies etc. - I think you get the drift. No, America has always been innovative as well as some of the EU countries, France,England and Germany foremost. Of course maybe they surrendered some of that imagination when they put themselves in the shackles of socialism. Where there is no incentive for innovation and all is provided by the government there is definitely a lack of motivation to build great industries. That is why MSFT is right to demand the right to innovate. This is fundamental to America and its system of capitalism. Now can all the Softees say AMEN! JFD
