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| Time: 11:20 EST/16:20 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Perhaps no tech company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually the period when titans are vulnerable to getting knocked off by disruptive technologies. | ||
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| #1 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 12/7/2002 1:28:19 PM |
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nom:
More stupidity.... How can Microsoft leverage their OS "monopoly" to help it's developer tools, short of bundling them free with the OS (which hasn't happened, and never will happen). Windows Media Player is bundled with the OS, yet people still choose WinAMP, among others, for their audio and video.... this kinda negates the whole factor of leveraging the OS "monopoly", since it hasn't yet done so with WMP. I would also like to add that IE has come with Windows ever since the first version of Win95 came out (it shipped with IE2). Nobody used IE back then because it flat out stunk compared to Netscape. Not until version 4 did people really start using IE, and it had nothing to do with bundling. Flat out, IE is the best browser, only challenged recently by Mozilla, Visual Studio is the best IDE on the platform, etc... do I need to continue? People use the software because it's the best, not due to some sort of "leverage" that they have with Windows. |
| #2 By 1643 (205.240.158.3) at 12/7/2002 1:43:51 PM |
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Norm, stop spreading the FUD "Microsoft paid for this"...that is crazy, why would Microsoft want its competition to know the strong points of the company. Besides this is Harvard...
CNET, I am so surprised...an actual unbiased, unskewed, backed up by facts reporting...now if only zdnet, the register, etc. would take a look at this. If you look overall, the MS software portfolio is normally a very high quality in relation to its competitors...plus "my mom can use it"...which means it's powerful, and normal users can be productive. This post was edited by humor on Saturday, December 07, 2002 at 14:05. |
| #3 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 12/7/2002 1:47:53 PM |
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nom: Ummm... no that's not common knowledge, that's nomdlev knowledge, which I wouldn't even call knowledge.
Mr. Applescript is more powerful than .NET, it's a known fact. Mr. Apple created plastic, it's a known fact. Mr. Steve Jobs is god, bow to him and only him. |
| #4 By 1643 (205.240.158.3) at 12/7/2002 1:53:31 PM |
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Well norm, that is because Microsoft strives for making things better, especially on their own platform...don't you wish sun would have spent the time to make the dev tools and vm better for JAVA.
If you wanted to take the time and resources, you can view the MS source through licensing and go make a better product that integrates just as well with windows. I just wish more companies spent the time to innovate instead of litigate. Just because MS doesn't make a hodgepodge of clunky software that doesn't work well together (emmm, like IBM :)...doesn't make them evil, it makes them smarter. |
| #5 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 12/7/2002 1:56:39 PM |
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Yes, they can probably integrate it better, however, there is nothing stopping other companies from doing the exact same thing. There is nothing to hide, no tricks, nothing.
Notice that he said "and other applications" |
| #6 By 3653 (65.190.70.73) at 12/7/2002 8:42:42 PM |
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ComputerExpert, you might want to read the article before making a comment like that. I QUOTE...
"We found that Microsoft products were consistently rated highly when compared to competitive offerings, a result that held true across different product categories and over time. On average, Microsoft products "won" more than two-thirds of the competitive reviews we examined. Indeed, only once in 15 years did Microsoft products fail to win more than 50 percent of these reviews. Given the number and diversity of competitors they faced in each different product category, this consistently high performance is striking. " My friend, that isn't an opinion... that is FACT. Those conclusions are based on ACTUAL FACTS, ignoring opinion and bias. |
| #7 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 12/7/2002 9:36:15 PM |
| I wonder what that one product was. |
| #8 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 12/7/2002 9:55:38 PM |
| But JWM... Office on the Macintosh is great software, so is IE... but they didn't create MacOS. |
| #9 By 931 (67.35.52.174) at 12/8/2002 5:17:50 AM |
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That one product would be MS B.O.B ...lol
just kidding I'm sure they didn't count that one..lol probably something like ms publisher |
| #10 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 12/8/2002 2:47:49 PM |
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JWM - "I figured if .DOC was open, like MP3, there would be more competition."
RTF is open, nearly everybody supports it. Why don't you use that format? Oh yeah, it's limited... doesn't support a lot of the fancy new features of Office and it's ilk. "I not saying MS should be forced to make Office formats open. It is their own product. I guess some products categories set themselves up to be monopolies." The thing is, the monopoly happened naturally. As you said, people gave Office a monopoly because it was the best product in it's class at the time, and they were sick of file format incompatibilities. Personally I'd like the file format to be documented so others can use it. That's very different from making a standardized doc format. Standards tend to slowdown innovation dramatically. |
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