On Monday 23 May 2005 19:17, Puneet Lakhina wrote:
And about windoze or M$ bashing , i guess the desktop worrld can learn from it a lot and anatgonism is never gona be helpful windoze does have some good features thats why so many people use it.... And like it or not M$ is good at marketing what its got no matter how crappy. Moreover MS is the company that over the years has made the least amount of bad business decisions.
Going by the fines they have paid (> $3billion) does not look like that at all. It is not even good at marketing (wether M$ has it or not is not even relevant to them), it simply robs other companies of their ideas and then fights in court until the opponent goes bankrupt. In lay mans terms it's called bullying.
So take the good from M$ and Windoze rather than just bash it... I mean Lotus made mistakes IBM did ..
Lotus did not make mistakes. M$ changed the win APIs and not only did not provide it to other vendors (Novell, Lotus, IBM etc) but also deliberately introduced bugs to prevent the victims software from running. That is what those fines were for.
rgds jtd
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
On Monday 23 May 2005 19:17, Puneet Lakhina wrote:
And about windoze or M$ bashing , i guess the desktop worrld can learn from it a lot and anatgonism is never gona be helpful windoze does have some good features thats why so many people use it.... And like it or not M$ is good at marketing what its got no matter how crappy. Moreover MS is the company that over the years has made the least amount of bad business decisions.
Going by the fines they have paid (> $3billion) does not look like that at all. It is not even good at marketing (wether M$ has it or not is not even relevant to them), it simply robs other companies of their ideas and then fights in court until the opponent goes bankrupt. In lay mans terms it's called bullying.
So take the good from M$ and Windoze rather than just bash it... I mean Lotus made mistakes IBM did ..
Lotus did not make mistakes. M$ changed the win APIs and not only did not provide it to other vendors (Novell, Lotus, IBM etc) but also deliberately introduced bugs to prevent the victims software from running. That is what those fines were for.
Lotus guys were actually (from my point of view) stupid. They made the best software that was available at that time. They had huge lead over everyone else. Then they went to sleep. They did not come up with worthwhile updates. In fact, they did not come up with updates at all for a long time . Meanwhile, MS came up with excel, which was a major improvement over Lotus and simple swept the market.
By the time IBM took over Lotus, the spreasheet and office software market was gone too firmly to MS. Only thing still left was Lotus Notes.
Regards Saswata
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