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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (172104)	10/6/2005 11:46:24 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You are so ignorant about the rise of PC industry that it would take me too long to educate you. The short answer is that at the time MS did not have many (or even any?) wiz-bang programmers. Watch the documentaries and stop embarrassing yourself.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (172104)	10/7/2005 9:20:33 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Silly me, just another sucker buying the worse-than-the-competitor product from $ill, year after year, decade after decade, never thinking to switch to the best thing. There are millions of us, dumb as stumps. I started using a computer when I got hooked onto a Wang word processor. When I bought my first IBM PC, the first thing I got was a Multi-mate word processor. The next big thing that I got into was using a computer spread sheet. I started with VisiCalc and than moved onto Lotus 123. Before the Internet became popular, I went online with AOL. At the time they had less than a few hundred thousand subscribers. When the Internet and email became popular (this was before 1994 - and Bill Gates had not ever been on the Internet) I went online with a company called Pipeline and their email system. I used their browser until Netscape came out. I was way late in the use of an operating system that used GUI technology. I was not impressed with my first exposure to Windows. But do you get my drift. Microsoft never came out first with any of the software that I ever use. It was not that I had anything against Microsoft, but every time I tried using their software, the software didn't work and there was soemthing else that worked better. Microsoft software always had the earmark of some brilliant 16 year old programmer. Man this is cool. And when you complained to them that it didn't work - they would smirk and give you some smart alecky answer that didn't answer any of the questions and concerns. Microsoft is a success - I can't argue with that. Bill Gates is fabulously rich - I can't argue with that. But, I don't really know how important Bill Gates and Microsoft are to technology and the computer industry. I don't think we would have missed a beat if Bill Gates and Microsoft never existed. I can only speculate that perhaps we could have been better off without either Bill Gates and Microsoft being in existense.