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To: Alomex who wrote (23083)	2/10/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Name a disaster that has befallen Microsoft, other than the DOJ suit and videotape snafu. The company has yet to turn the either of those into a success. HerbVic

To: Alomex who wrote (23083)	2/10/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 213176

What amazes me, though, is that this trial is an utter rout so far. MSFT has done little to show that it HASN'T got a monopoly or that it doesn't engage in unfair practices. When presented with proof that is INTERNAL, they say "Ooops, that was a mistake" or "We didn't mean that" and it seems to get swept under the rug. MSFT is clearly engaging in monopoly practices that are anti-competitive....so OF COURSE they can turn disaster into success. They simply dip into their cash and buy some PR!

To: Alomex who wrote (23083)	2/10/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Alomex, >>What is the difference between Microsoft and say Lotus or Apple? Proprietary ownership of the OS that ships on 95% of the desktops! Microsoft had a steady stream of revenue from DOS and then Windows which allowed it time to "catch-up" feature by feature with Lotus. The key difference is that Microsoft did not have to sell Excel version 1,2,3 to maintain a successful business model. Apple's glaring mistake was not to ship a MacOS port of some kind to the IBM PC. Since they were not willing to produce low-end hardware at the time, they could have used the PC as their low-end product line. If Gates was a visionary then it was because he realied that you could shrink-wrap crap in a box and the public would not only buy it but demand more, as long as it was cheap. Cheers, Norm