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To: Road Walker who wrote (165221)	5/17/2002 8:28:50 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

To me the reason that power point became the defacto standard is the same reason the PC sells more than the Apple. Price, price, price. That is certainly my business story. I couldn't afford Harvard Graphics and I couldn't afford Apples of the power I needed.

To: Road Walker who wrote (165221)	5/17/2002 8:34:33 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: A case in point, many years ago I was using Harvard Graphics presentation software. A great program (IMHO) at that time. But along came MS Power Point as a free bundled product with Office Remember all those years that went by before you could rotate text to parallel the Y axis in a graph in Powerpoint?

To: Road Walker who wrote (165221)	5/17/2002 8:35:53 AM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

John, I 've been in the software industry for 20 years and I saw first hand how MSFT defeated most companies. One way was the economic one ( as you described it ) the other was by using the latest Windows OS features to their Apps at least 6 months before any competitors could because the OS new features were developed partly to accomodate MSFT apps and the development of those features was not known to developers outside MSFT. Eventually, all apps had to look and feel like MSFT apps or users would not touch them. C

To: Road Walker who wrote (165221)	5/17/2002 9:21:18 AM
From: Bob Kim	Respond to of 186894

John, Powerpoint began on the Mac and debuted in 1987.

To: Road Walker who wrote (165221)	5/17/2002 9:35:42 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John, <<<I agree that MS can put together some very good software when faced with competition. But once they win a space, improvements in the products are few and far between.>>> I agree that MS does only what it has to do to maintain dominant position. That seems only reasonable from a business point of view. MS has a way of developing apps many people admire. I am not one of them. The choice is not mine alone, if it were, I am not sure which way I would vote. Letting MS dictate to me what software to use or letting some judge tell me. Puts me between a rock and a hard place. Mary