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To: Steve who wrote (6495)	4/1/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: James P Shaw	Respond to of 9798

I wasn't implying that CE is a good product (never used it so I can't really comment upon its quality). You are correct about MS and the quality of their products, they usually get a good product out by version 5 or 6. Witness Visual Studio. Although IBM started the PC craze, their profitability has always been from the mainframes and peripherals (witness their deal with Dell). Will MS suffer the same fate as IBM? That's hard to guess, maybe they will. The big difference is that MS isn't the huge monolithic company that IBM was (I think they were as high as 400,000 employees). And for all intense and purposes they are still run by one person (or at least directly guided by Gates). IBM couldn't make a decision without having 7[exaggerated number] layers of approval. The McPerfect comment was a joke. Who knows, maybe an idiot marketing person in the states will do it? MS has not spent millions to propagate Windows, they've spent BILLIONS of $$$ on it. Not something to take lightly. Yes people do tend to stick with the 'Devil you know' than the devil you don't. I don't believe that MS has stunted technology's growth (although they haven't advanced it that far). Blame Steve Jobs for the stunt of technology. If Apple did it right with better pricing or IBM used their brains with OS/2 (which by the way was developed by/with MS for IBM) MS windows wouldn't have played the dominant role. There just were not any real stable, viable and feasible alternatives on the desktop. Don't blame MS for other companies (Digital Research with DR-DOS, and Apple with the MAC, Borland, IBM, etc.. ) dropping the ball. On your note about the best technology surviving. What about the FAX machine? Ciao! Jim Shaw