"Peter da Silva" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
> David Swanson  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > It's not that I'm particularly fond of Microsoft or their products or
their
> > practices, but that I can understand them and see the reason they feel
that
> > some particular desicion or product is the direction for their company.
>
> OK, I can see Microsoft's point of view. I can understand why they make
> the decisions they do. It's even rational, if you accept their premises.
>
> That doesn't change the fact that those decisions cause endless amounts of
> wasted make-work for millions of people, because Microsofts goals are only
> indirectly related to theirs.
>

Well, as long as people keep buying Microsoft products and patches
("Upgrades" in Redmond-speak), Microsoft will continue to pursue the same
strategy. The public has been gulled into paying perfectly good money for
mediocre products. If such was not the case, there'd be a heck of a lot more
MPE and VMS out there!

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