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To: micromike who wrote (8081)	3/6/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: uu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Mike: > so it loses control of all the players in the game so the consumer will finally get a choice. But you see, as I said, consumer does have a choice. It is just that it does not want to exercise that choice! And the reason is PC vendors do not make that choice obvious to him. But why? Because PC vendors go by what the consumer wants! As I said it is sort of like which came first? The chicken or the egg? In this case the chicken being the PC vendor and the consumer being the egg! As I said ask yourself, would you buy a PC that does not run Microsoft Windows? and if your answer is "No, but only because if I buy something else I can not run any applications for, etc." And that is exactly the point. Software vendors (as I said even Oracle which is Microsoft's #1 enemy) are writing software specifically for Windows OS, Why? Because the consumers "will" is to use Microsoft Windows OS rather than for example IBM's OS/2. And if we try to explore the answers to as why this is the case we may as well explore the answer to "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?!" It is a condition that market and not Microsoft has created. Microsoft is simply taking advantage of the situation and is doing what market is asking them to do: to monopolize us! Regards, Addi Jamshidi