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Microsoft needs to worry about current markets first!
Ways to make Windows more palatable:

1) Stop loading it with DRM and spyware coding

2) Make it easy to choose what one wants to install

3) Stop loading it up with so much junk that it requires a PC that costs more than a car. Remember, Bill Gates is the guy who said 640K was plenty of RAM.

4) Trash the EULA that gives MS ownership of any IP one creates using their software.

5) Stop dropping support for "legacy" hardware and software. Not everyone has thrown away their DOS disks or wants to buy new video cards everytime a new program comes out.

6) Don't kid yourself that every upgrade of Office is worth $400!

7) FIX THE SECURITY HOLES!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: AbsolutelyNot   Posted on: 05/07/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Microsoft can't sell to them?  nucrash | 05/07/04
Selling now is not the point  tero_t_vaananen@... | 05/07/04
Much more to the point  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/07/04
WinHEC? Innovative Hardware Lock-in To Windows?  claytonmuhler | 05/07/04
Every on on the planet has a TV...  boatelc | 05/07/04
Who needs a PC to heard sheep?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/07/04
I've heard several sheep.  Yen_z | 05/07/04
Consistent global pricing?  Fred Fredrickson | 05/07/04
maybe  V Sanders | 05/07/04
Microsoft needs to worry about current markets first!  AbsolutelyNot | 05/07/04
But why do all that?  Chad_z | 05/07/04
you can always go to  V Sanders | 05/07/04
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... So_many no_longer_use_M$_drekware, bozo.  dicktaurus@... | 05/07/04
stop the rhetoric  stephen732@... | 05/07/04
Obviously a flame bate...  gtdworak | 05/10/04
It's the dollars stupid.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/07/04
Right. Now take it a step further.  Anton Philidor | 05/07/04
Nope, can't agree with this:  Cardinal_Bill | 05/07/04
Business strategy, not software.  Anton Philidor | 05/08/04
I'd look at this from a different angle  tic swayback | 05/08/04
And you know this how?  Chad_z | 05/07/04
Creating a model for a business plan  Anton Philidor | 05/08/04
More to it than that  tic swayback | 05/08/04
Yes, there's also price and availability  Anton Philidor | 05/09/04
1 out of 4 is ... well, bad.  Fred Fredrickson | 05/07/04
Don't think that's the potential market  j.m.galvin | 05/10/04
So to recap WinHEC  Richard Flude | 05/07/04
You missed Mr. Gates proclamation.  Cardinal_Bill | 05/07/04
$30  Franklin_z | 05/07/04
Single world price...  robradina@... | 05/10/04
Windows a world Standard?  xshakes | 05/08/04
Stop beliving the MS hype  xshakes | 05/08/04
My adivce would be to ask Steve Jobs, too  mlindl | 05/08/04
Maybe the US is an emerging market...  FederalistPaperBoy | 05/08/04
Makes some of you very happy  FilledOut | 05/09/04
win xp is hell to work with  hipparchus2000 | 05/10/04

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