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So, Apple's lean times were MS's fault somehow Richard?

You make no sense. Apple had over a decade on MS. They refused to build anything other than outlandishly priced computers that only the privileged wealthy could even approach affording. I mean who thought a 5000.00 home computer would fly in the 1980s?

From 1991 to 1995 MS built a dynasty on foresight. How can MS help the Fact that SUN(who had everything handed to them, thanks U.S. taxpayers), or APPLE or IBM or any other IT giant of the 80s was not smart enough to target the larger market? Huh? I don't get that part, why is that Microsoft's fault? They had a great business plan, it had unprecedented success and they had every right to do business, as business should be done.

Many people liken Capitalism to some kind of alter to greed, and maybe it is for some, but so is it for some in dictatorships and the aristocrats in a socialist economy, so this God forsaken subjective BS just needs to stop.
It was good business for Microsoft to do exactly what you said. That is what business is about. It's about protecting your interests and your jobs. Jobs are extremely important to a company and to the economy.

I really don't think they would have let Apple sink anyway, it was just typical business manuveuring that takes place in most every business in the world. In fact as far as I can recall, the U.S. companies of old were more about Jobs and country than greed. Hmmm, I wonder if that is just nostalgia painting the past in a better light than it was, or was it the businesses outside the U.S. that become major players as the economy became a global one for everyone more and more, more greedy and driven than U.S. companies. Well, that was really silly but if I thought that were true and held a grudge because of it, it might make as much sense as those that hold one against MS now. Unpresedented and greedy predatory monopoly are two very different things. History shows the former is the much larger part of that pie.

Please spare me the netscape story, or the other one.....seems there are two, which are magnified and an illusion is attempted to be created that it was everyone, even those IT Titans I mentioned who roamed the IT landscape in the 80s with massive headstarts and resources on MS. Yes, someone the guile of wiley ol' Bill Gates found a way to crush each and every one of those companies on it's way to where it is now. Nobody knows for sure what he did, but we know it did happen and it was evil.

As for the few examples that are repeated on here ad nauseum, there is a great deal of evidence that Ms had Nothing to do with the demise of either. And history shows that that to be the most likely case.
Everything else is simply doing business. It's a very competitive world out there. Nobody claimed rainbow filled days and puppy dogs that never age.

Posted by: xuniL_z   Posted on: 06/30/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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