Monday, September 20, 2004
What’s with the Microsoft whiners?
Tell me the deal with all these people crying about Bill Gates all the time. What’s so bad about Bill? So he’s a tough business man. Big deal. Gates and Microsoft have changed the world for the better overall. In America we have competition and 
the best product with the best marketing and best management wins. Having the best product alone isn’t and has never been enough and even if it was, MSFT has the best product for 99% of thier target users anyway (target users means people other than freaks who design thier own operating systems or have some 88 step process to run a program so they can save $99).
Remember the crybabies at AOL a few years ago suing Microsoft to try to stop the release of MSN with Windows? Despite their whining AOL won because they had a better product. At the time MSN was crap. Before that Netscape sued because MSIE was going to be bundled with Windows. Guess what? Netscape’s original plan was to charge for web browsers. If a company gives something away for free that another charges for, how is that bad for the consumer?
Microsoft could have been killed many times in their existence but they were smarter than the competition. In 1993 Microsoft had something like three employees in the whole company dedicated to “internet” work. When they saw the web trend starting they moved 3000 people to their web department in about a day. That’s why they succeed.
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the best product with the best marketing and best management wins. Having the best product alone isn’t and has never been enough and even if it was, MSFT has the best product for 99% of thier target users anyway (target users means people other than freaks who design thier own operating systems or have some 88 step process to run a program so they can save $99).
Remember the crybabies at AOL a few years ago suing Microsoft to try to stop the release of MSN with Windows? Despite their whining AOL won because they had a better product. At the time MSN was crap. Before that Netscape sued because MSIE was going to be bundled with Windows. Guess what? Netscape’s original plan was to charge for web browsers. If a company gives something away for free that another charges for, how is that bad for the consumer?
Microsoft could have been killed many times in their existence but they were smarter than the competition. In 1993 Microsoft had something like three employees in the whole company dedicated to “internet” work. When they saw the web trend starting they moved 3000 people to their web department in about a day. That’s why they succeed.
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