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Re: The Mircrosoft Question



Amen, brother!

Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Chernoff <echernof@email.unc.edu>
To: jomc191@listserv.oit.unc.edu <jomc191@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 3:39 PM
Subject: The Mircrosoft Question


>
>I am finding myself still thinking about today's installment of our now
>every-class discussion on Microsoft and how it all kinda generally sucks.
>
>I believe that Microsoft is not really in control at least, or at least,
>that they are in control simply by default.  Consumers are not happy with
>Microsoft, the government is not happy with Microsoft, even the
>compo~rnofuter manufacturer (AKA the distributers) are not happy with
>Microsoft.  If any of these groups were give a strong, viable alternative,
>then there would be no monopoly.
>
>Of course, there are other OS's, but the companies that make them don't
>seem to care for selling their products.  Apple's mismanagement is
>legendary.  Sun has tried to enter to home foray with their Sparc
>Classics, but Sun hasn't done anything about the fact that UNIX is still
>far from accessible to the average consumer.
>
>And how can any reasonable person look at IBM's size and power and not
>believe that the non-popularity of OS/2 is a direct result of
>mismanagement?  I doubt it's possible--even IBM's own people will tell you
>that.
>
>All of these companies remind me of Commodore and Atari--superior products
>which were never agressively marketed.  If only Apple would have committed
>themselves to the kind of marketing tactics which marked the launch of
>Windows 95, then we would all be discussing the Justive Department's
>investigation in Steve Jobs.  Marketing is everything.
>
>This is why Wal Mart is killing K-Mart and NationsBank lures in
>unsuspecting college students for the great reaming of their lives (sorry,
>went a little overboard there...), because Wal Mart and NationsBank know
>how to saturate the marketplace with their names and trademarks so that
>people believe they are only place to go.  Microsoft has done the same.
>
>I felt the need to point out the obvious, because I feel that Microsoft is
>being unfairly persecuted.  They are being punished because they are the
>only people in their field with some kind of marketing intelligence, and
>that's unfair.  I want to see Gates bankrupted as much as the next person,
>but I would like to see it done fairly and squarely.
>
><!-- begin really off-the-wall stuff here -->
>
>Of course, none of this really matters, because in two years, Gateway will
>control at least 40% of the marketplace with 4000 MHz PowerPCs running
>AmigaOS 4.0, but that's just how I see it.  And afterall, I am a Perot
>voter.
>
>eric chernoff
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