NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/advocacy/11340

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Just Don't buy MS products, and tell your friends the same!
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Date: 1 Jan 93 00:58:11 CST
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Phil Lafornara) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>>[e-mail] (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
>>
>>>A companies _customers_ calls the shots no matter how big the company is.
>>>Its the customers who give it the market share that it has.
>>
>>Hmm, so if I contact such a company, tell them what I want of them
>>and tell them I am a customer, they'll tell me, Yes sir, it'll
>>be there first thing? Nah, doesn't even look worth trying. To
>>simple a view maybe.
>
>      Read it again - it's customers, not customer.  If you and
> a couple hundred thousand of your friends all called and told that
> company what you wanted, you can bet they'd get right on it.
>
>
>>>Look at it this way.  The only way a "big company" can put a "little company"
>>>out of business is for the customers of the little company to _voluntarily_
>>>of their _own_free_will_ to _choose_ to buy from the big company instead.
>>>In other words, it is the freewill choice of the customers which puts _any_
>>>company, big or little out of business.
>>
>>And not the potential of a big company to produce at lower costs and
>>the consumers wish to get the cheapest product still valuable. Right
>>you are.
>
>      The lower costs and hence lower prices are a motivating factor
> towards those customers moving away.  So is superior quality.
> But the ultimate loss in sales comes from the choices of consumers.
>
>                 -Phil
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Phil Lafornara                         1 Microsoft Way
> [e-mail]                Redmond, WA 98052-6399
> Note:  Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.

    Phil, I agree with you this time. I has chosen not to purchase any more
microsoft products. I used to be a big fan of MS Products, Excel and Word for
Win were/are superb products. Since Microsoft has chosen to discontinue the
OS/2 versions, I have chosen not to upgrade my previous versions. Lotus has
chosen to offer spreadsheets and Word processors for OS/2 and for the same
price I would have paid Microsoft.

    BTW, You can Thank your marketing people for the free postage and
envelope I used to mail my "I Want OS/2 Products" suggestions to Microsoft.
After all It said check 1)YES I Would Like to Order a copy of Powerpoint
            2)No, I Would not like to order a copy because______.

I Wish MS would send me one every day, so I could send it back asking for OS/2
versions. Windows was good before OS/2 2.0, but now there is no contest.
Sure If I had 4MB or less on a 286, I would still run Windows, but only for the
apps.

Now If Borland's next TASM does OS/2, I Will not Upgrade MASM either. I was
really upset with C 7.0, for not having OS/2 support. 6.0 had everything
needed to create OS/2 apps. I Still use C 6.0 for Device Drivers and
MASM 6.0 & C 6.0 are the only MS apps I still use, and I have no plans to
upgrade them in the future.

Michael Kupka