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Re:Nah! That would interfere with M$'s business model: monopoly + lock-in.
>> Just keeping rival OSes from being pre-installed is the single most important reason Micro$hat is where it is.

Even though I dont like MS's business practices, I dont agree with you on this. The single most important reason for microsoft being where it is today is that they understood an average person's technical abilities, and developed an OS that is easy to use and maintain. Nobody else was bothered to go this way other than Apple. But then you dont get MAC-OSX for PCs. So if everyone had decided to go Apple's way, our choices would have been even more limited and we would have been fighting a bigger monopoly now. At least now we have choices for hardware vendors.

Now don't tell me there is Linux. I have tried many different linux distributions. Nothing comes anywhere close to where windows is today, even after KDE and GNOME trying to copy all GUI features from Windows. I bought Mandrake Linux from CompUSA and installed on my PC as well as few of my friend's PC. Sometimes I use it, because I work on Unix at office, so it helps me having a unix like OS at home. But my friends never boots into Linux. Now do you think that if they had got it pre-installed it on their PC, they would be using it instead of windows ? No ! they would have either returned the system and ordered for a windows system or they would have bought a windows CD and wiped linux off and installed windows on it.

Now do you think "Just keeping rival OSes from being pre-installed is the single most important reason Micro$hat is where it is" ?
Posted by: mbraincell@...   Posted on: 12/15/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Very strategic, should kill open source  Mike Cox | 12/15/03
Good eats  rgriffith64@... | 12/15/03
...and with security issues solved..  moiety | 12/15/03
slow day?  ryusen | 12/15/03
Really a smart move. They need to make Windows more modular.  DonnieBoy | 12/15/03
of course  JWatson77 | 12/15/03
Lawsuits a-plenty  jellyclock | 12/15/03
Nah! That would interfere with M$'s business model: monopoly + lock-in.  dicktaurus@... | 12/15/03
Hogwash...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/15/03
Ok  Patrick Jones | 12/15/03
ok  voska | 12/15/03
Maybe true today...  WhoIsDaMan | 12/15/03
IBM never had the Monopoly  voska | 12/15/03
Re:Nah! That would interfere with M$'s business model: monopoly + lock-in.  mbraincell@... | 12/15/03
Cannot generalize based on case studies...  Carl Rogers | 12/15/03
Re: Cannot generalize based on case studies...  mbraincell@... | 12/15/03
I find the opposite  LazLong | 12/15/03
Of course  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/15/03
Re: Of course  mbraincell@... | 12/15/03
Other DOSs, OS2, BeOS ...  MacCanuck | 12/16/03
Of course it is  WhoIsDaMan | 12/15/03
This why MS is on top  voska | 12/15/03
OK, you got us..  Don Bradley | 12/15/03
My Win98 PC had Netscape preloaded  voska | 12/15/03
funny a software company would not already have a group dedicated to develo  JWatson77 | 12/15/03
My Rep buys all my food  fastech@... | 12/15/03

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