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Taking is the key word
I am not a Microsoft basher or hater, for I develop on the platform daily. However, this is a prime example of Microsoft using their size and bank to overtake the competition. I don't use PocketPC for I cannot justify the cost. What I can tell you is if I wanted Outlook on my desktop it would cost me nearly $100 and it sure wasn't included in PocketPC. Until recently that is, and it says this could be a contributing factor to the additional market share. Now tell me what company throws a hundred bucks away for it's customers. None, Microsoft throws a hundred bucks away to kill the competition. It's a fact in our world that people will purchase the best bang for the buck. Microsoft has the money to create the bang for the buck to consumers, until they have the market share then your bang goes to poof because they don't have competition to make a better product.
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This can't be!  ShadeTree | 04/30/04
I don't think you understand monopoly  Robert Crocker | 04/30/04
Note the time and date please....  quietLee | 04/30/04
I think it is you that doesn't understand!  ShadeTree | 04/30/04
So, I could have grabbed that market share also...  el1jones | 04/30/04
Yup, Microsoft uses its advantages  Anton Philidor | 04/30/04
RE: Microsoft uses its advantages  JakAttak | 04/30/04
Correction needed.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
BeOS will make it better?  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
Umm Monopoly on the desktop  voska | 04/30/04
Screen Real Estate  Martin Marvinski | 04/30/04
What do these numbers reallly mean?  tic swayback | 04/30/04
Perhaps a more meaningful figure  quietLee | 04/30/04
What you put in one end of the pipe, comes out the other.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/30/04
But it's meaningless  tic swayback | 04/30/04
(NT) .....if you forget to light it, and suck really, really hard :o)  Jack-Booted EULA | 05/01/04
And we all know how much he sucks. (nt)  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/02/04
Shipping more units  MalumRegnat | 04/30/04
Not quite that way.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
Tilting the numbers  tic swayback | 05/01/04
PocketPC Vs. Palm  mabricen | 04/30/04
RE: 3 products  JakAttak | 04/30/04
MSN messanger bytes  voska | 04/30/04
treo 600  TWRX | 04/30/04
Treo 600 needs Wndows Mobile  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
Really nothing to brag about.  systemcleaner | 04/30/04
Microsoft doesn't sell PPCs...  Confused by religion | 05/01/04
You don't know what you are talking about or you pretend to.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
No, you're wrong.  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
The FACT is...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/02/04
Good choice of words.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/02/04
Taking is the key word  martman100 | 05/03/04
Not  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
The FACT is... RTFA  OldeTimeGeek | 05/03/04
Palm Is Losing on it's Own  jskoller | 05/06/04

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