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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Here's the thing. Microsoft makes some of the most popular software in the world. I don't know the actual figure, but even us Mac-headz will tell you it's like 80% of the desktops in American (if not the World's) homes run some variation of Windows. That is a commanding portion of the market, and much as I'd love to trash them, they got there by shrewd business accumen(1), tremendous marketing, and producing good products(2). They worked hard and they have been rewarded. The lion's share of the home computers in the world are running Microsoft OS. I'm OK with this (3). My issues have to do with Microsoft now using this leverage to coerce people who use their OS to use their other products. Microsoft makes great products (4). They shouldn't have to resort to lead-pipe-to-knee tactics. I recognize that it's a fine line, but if you can't extract IE from Windows without crippling your web capabilities (even if you install Navigator or some other replacement browser) then I have a problem with that. If IE is truly the superior product and provided it's handled with the same aformentioned accumen, it will win out on a level playing field. That's how this market game is played, and that's what's at issue for me. How does the market benefit from Microsoft's exclusion of its competition? On a global scale, the US certainly benefits from this, but what about the advancement of computer applications development and operating systems? If tomorrow night a guy living in his mom's basement in Witchita finishes writing his masterful open-source 'Hyperion-Tesseract Browser' which is cross-platform compatible, renders twenty-five times faster than anything out there, stable as a rock, and takes up only 808K, is his product going to stand a chance up against IE? Even with clever marketing, shrewd business leadership and a yummy candy colored interface, he's not going to be able to make his product integral to the functioning of the OS. Once MS catches wind of his new App, they will do one of three things: buy it and rebrand it into IE(5); buy it and sit on it; express concerns about its compatibility and drag their heels giving information to HTB developers who want to interface with the OS. Where is the reward for his innovation? How are the people served by this? Much as I hate to admit it, right now there is no one who can realistically compete with Microsoft in the OS business. That's not good for the market, and ultimately that's not even good for Microsoft. They are going to stay out front with innovation, and as long as they are in complete control of that pace, we the consumers are not going to be getting the best products. ____________________ [list] 1 They knew who to rip off and when... 2 god it hurts to say this 3 There's no accounting for personal taste after all, and if a huge chunk of the world's population wants to use a buggy unstable copycat OS from the totalitarians in Redmond, that's their problem. Mmmm Starbucks. (Feels so much better now) 4 I should say '...buys exceptionally terrific products, corrupts them with legacy code and releases good products.' 5 At which point it will become exclusively Win XP compatible, a tenth as fast, buggy as the everglades in August, and take up 1.3GB of drive space. ;) [/list] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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