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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pink Minion who wrote (557)	1/12/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

But what would it be like if there was more competition? I can't show you what the industry would be like if they weren't allowed to plow businesses under by giving away free products. This is just like what Standard Oil did 120 years ago What would the world be like if John D Rockafeller didn't talk Henry Ford out of switching fuels from hemp oil? How much less polluted would the world be? Tell me what it would be like without Microsoft. I guess you know, so tell me about it. Do you really think MS has made 0 innovative contributions to the computer industry? Name a few technologies that have been destroyed by MS that we are now living without. "Microsoft's 3D is turning out to be an excellent offering, and is being incorporated into many games and other software products. There's little confusion about conflicting "standards." " A standard owned by a company is never good. If you don't understand this, there is no point in argueing with you. What are the advances in graphics are we missing? Bogged down by bloatware. This wasn't my quote, it was from the author of the article. As far as standards go, I agree mostly. But the fact is, Windows is a de facto standard, like it or not. Because it is, it provides a platform developers can write to and reach 90% of all desktops. Is that good? Damn right.