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"Now do you think "Just keeping rival OSes from being pre-installed is the single most important reason Micro$hat is where it is" ?"

So just because you don't really use Apple or linux we're all supposed to suddenly believe that that's not the truth?

You'd have to be a real fool to not think that stopping rivals from installing their OSes hasn't helped the adoption of Windows greatly. So if Pepsi made it so that supermarkets and delis could onyl sell Pepsi and nothing else, you think at that point it would have anything to do with the quality of Pepsi or how much people want it?
So if there were 3 or 4 other x86 OSes that were just as easy to use and full-featured as Windows, you don't think the whole computing landscape would be completely different? Take product activation: M$ would have gone the way of turbo tax when they decided to go software rental. People would have balked and immediately changed distros. Or how about the spying, lock-in, coercing, forced upgrading, etc..do you think they'd be able to do any of this if not for their monopoly status? You know you'd never tolerate the kind of behavior that they've shown if you applied their business practices to other industries. Can you imagine a car manufacturer trying to sell cars that didn't start half the time, or that stalled every 10 miles?! They would be OUT OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY!
Posted by: GRindinAxTaRupy   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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