To: M31 who wrote (8187 ) 5/30/1998 10:25:00 PM From: Dwight E. Karlsen Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Oh I know: why don't we just have competition? Because microsoft won't let us! efficiency for software developers. Have you ever been to Quebec, Canada? Signs in both French and English. Ever been to Finland? Signs in both Swedish and Finnish. There is a cost for all this double-production. Why do you suppose that the ITU voted on a 56K standard?very glad that Microsoft (or somebody, it doesn't much matter who it is) has developed and marketed a very nice OS which not only I like, but one which a lot of people seem to like -- hence, it became dominant.Where was Sun in 1988 to 1990, when MS was working on Windows 3.0? Don't tell me that Sun or anyone else has been locked out of the market. The fact is, they weren't interested. NO, they were NOT INTERESTED. Not until Microsoft demonstrated how profitable it could be to develop a good GUI for the Intel platform. Oh, other companies did try. I tried a couple of them, and they were lame. I paid more than $89, too. But NOW we have a bunch of companies wanting to eat Microsoft's lunch, a lunch which Microsoft has prepared. . No wonder. That lunch is pretty tasty. :-) so hee-hee and ha-ha.
