On Mon, 17 May 2004 16:27:28 EDT, "Shane C. Hage" <shage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > I think people forget that Microsoft must have filled a gap that these other > operating systems didn't. How can we blame Microsoft for capitalizing on > the need at the time? Yes, there was a market niche for monopolistic companies that would rather buy/litigate/bundle their competition out of existence rather than compete on technical merits. Oh.. and marketing. Don't forget marketing. > magnitude that a malicious program could have across the world. Sure, > Microsoft is playing catch-up with security. They are just filling the gap > in their own products now. Just like they had to play catch-up with the concept of a GUI, and the Internet, and now they act like they invented both of those. I see dark times ahead......
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