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- From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT(It's only the beginning...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.175353.5453@ohsu.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:53:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ohsu.1992Dec30.175353.5453
- References: <1992Dec30.090355.25626@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.090355.25626@microsoft.com> edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward
- Jung) writes:
- > [The holiday season gives me time to peruse these great advocacy
- > discussions... entertainment for all!]
- ..stuff deleted
-
- > A final point. Microsoft has traditionally focused on customer
- > needs. NeXT, and Jobs, have focused on anticipating the needs
- > that customers don't have yet, but probably will. As the
- > industry has become more market driven due to competitive
- > and pricing pressures, direct focus on customer needs has
- > been very profitable since the purchaser tends to think in
- > those terms (esp. for corporations).
-
- Unfortunately, this makes Microsoft always one step
- behind, doesn't it? By the time they realize that their
- customers need something, someone else has already
- provided that service. It seems to me that Microsoft has
- been benefiting from the "I'm waiting for NT!" attitude
- for a long time now. One of these days, the new ideas will
- move too fast for them and they will fall so far behind that
- their users will lose patience, and purchase a NeXT ;).
-
- > After all, no company can solve all the problems; so we
- > pick the ones we think we have a good chance at solving...
-
- Unfortunately, the problems are generally all solved
- before Microsoft gets to work on a solution. If this isn't
- the case, then could you possibly tell us one problem that
- NT solves that isn't solved already by NeXTStep, or OS/2
- for that matter?
-
- > --
- > Edward Jung, Software Architect edwardj@microsoft.com
- > Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.
-
- Daniel Filiberti
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