Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

In article <33644F25.4E20_at_lehman.com>, Paul says...
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>> Let's assume that what you say here is true for a moment. Are you
>> suggesting that it's a good thing that the average computer user is
>> willing to tolerate badly written operating systems (presumably because
>> they don't know any better)?
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>No - I am not suggesting it is a 'good thing'. Its reality.
>If I go to a HI-FI shop or a car shop, I buy something based
>on how I perceive it to be. It may be a crap car or hi-fi to
>you, but that doesnt matter to _me_.
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>Microsoft's marketing ensure that if you do NOT buuy MS, you should
>feel worried.

    Just get me a Linux version of Inside-Out and I'll be fine... '-)

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>How many of your computer-illiterate relatives have a computer?
>What s/w do they run? Did you advise them?

    One of my relatives is the epitome of the lemming attitude.     For some reason she cannot manage to articulate to me, she     has a strange infatuation with Word6. Of course she asked me     what kind of machine she would need to buy to run this bloated     thing. However, she chose to ignore that advice & bought a     386sx/16 machine w/ 1M RAM (upped to 4) & 40M HD to run that     bugger...

    Some people deserve their fate...

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>Repeat that question amongst the Internet audience, and the
>questions we are answering are not based on what we personally,
>as techies know, but on the buying publics knowledge of the market.
  Received on Mon Apr 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT