Comment Re:The most sickening slashdot thread yet. (Score 1) 222
MS Office didn't start out with a decent set of programs. WordPerfect and Lotus were both far better, but with a virtually unlimited source of revenue from OS, MS apps had the time and money to catch up.
The fact that AOL clobbers MS today will mean nothing if MS can continue to pour, you pick a figure, any amount of money it wants to until it catchs and buries AOL. Its exactly the model MS used to bury netscape. Today IE is a good product, one I agree is better than Netscape, but it didn't start out that way, and had it been forced to develop without unlimited MS OS money, it probably wouldn't be the product it is today. Under more reasonable competitive circumstances who knows whether or not Netscape or IE or some other browser that never got going because MS killed the market would be a better product than what's available.
I just hope the break up occurs before my TV's got Win icons all over it. On second thought, maybe that would be a good thing, it would invariably crash at the critical moment in the program, so there'd be no need to watch in the first place.
The fact that AOL clobbers MS today will mean nothing if MS can continue to pour, you pick a figure, any amount of money it wants to until it catchs and buries AOL. Its exactly the model MS used to bury netscape. Today IE is a good product, one I agree is better than Netscape, but it didn't start out that way, and had it been forced to develop without unlimited MS OS money, it probably wouldn't be the product it is today. Under more reasonable competitive circumstances who knows whether or not Netscape or IE or some other browser that never got going because MS killed the market would be a better product than what's available.
I just hope the break up occurs before my TV's got Win icons all over it. On second thought, maybe that would be a good thing, it would invariably crash at the critical moment in the program, so there'd be no need to watch in the first place.
