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-
- On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Paul Lara <lara@vvm.com> wrote:
- >
- >> Mr. Bill wants to make a buck, not a good product. He's very good at
- >>making a buck.
-
- > Really? How many successful businessmen do you know of that sit around
- > the table and say "OK, guys, let's design a new product, but don't make
- it very good."
-
- Geez, what has to happen before people realize that Microsoft makes
- MONEY (and gobs of it), but they do NOT make GOOD products? Maybe a definition
- of a good product is in order:
-
- 1) It works. W3.11 barely qualified.
- 2) It exhibits state of the art technology & craft. Lessee, when did
- the Windoze OS finally support multi-tasking, NOT to be confused w/task
- switching? (And when did the lowly Amiga support efficient multi-tasking?)
- 3) It is efficient. Gee, how much RAM do MS OS's require?
- 4 It is compact. How many megabytes does Word 6.0 require on HD?
- 4) It advances the state of the art.
-
- Microsoft products, in general, are average to mediocre. If MS wants
- GOOD products as outlined above, it BUYS them from efficient, quality companies
- such as SoftImage or Intuit. If MS needs new ideas, it steals them. MS is not
- an innovator, it is a marketing organization par excellence.
-
- Versions of MS word processors were not data-compatible across
- platforms, or sometimes even between revisions. Their premier w.p. took a step
- backwards in performance in a recent revision.
-
- PD OS's (Linux) outperform MS os's (within bounds of compatibility) so
- it is not the hardware that makes PC's so sluggish.
-
- Their flagship programming language has memory leaks, much to Allen &
- Stuart's chagrin, and our detriment.
-
- > It's a little too easy, I fear to Bash Microsoft, but the above
- statement lacks foundation.
-
- ???? It's easy to bash Microsoft because Microsoft is so bashable.
-
- > He wants to make his products better than everyone else's. Whether he
- >does or not is up to the eye (fingers?) of the beholder.
-
- Your assumption of Bill's goals is wrong. He wants to dominate the
- markets he targets, not make good products. If he COULD dominate with a totally
- buggy product, he would. Naturally a product has to have a certain
- functionality to have any chance to attain this goal. But time and again MS has
- shown that what REALLY counts is locking in customers, and dominating market
- share.
-
- There's nothing wrong with that-- just don't believe that you are
- experiencing the best your computer could function. (Me neither: I'm pretty
- much forced to use MS products.)
-
- >
- > I personally prefer AmigaDOS 3.0 to Windows95, but I use both.
-
- Did you ever wonder WHY the good ideas of ADos are not plagerized in
- W95? Because PC users didn't know what they were missing.
- >
- > Paul Lara
- > lara@vvm.com
-
- BTW, let's contrast Lightwave with Microsoft products. Lightwave's
- LAYOUT is still under a megabyte (!) so it is compact. It advances the state of
- the art with its adaptive anti-aliasing and, uh, "choosy" ray-tracing. (I think.
- SIGGRAPH members can correct me.) Craft is exhibited in its compact and, pour
- moi, efficient GUI. It works, and works and works. More seriously, it has been
- chosen over more powerful (supposedly, such as R3d) packages because it is very
- productive (yeah yeah).
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