Re: Geeky Question

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From: Angus Creech
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 00:00

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Robert Hartley (rh@mblab.gla.ac.uk) wrote:
: By Industry standard do you mean "spend a fortune because being left
: behind would be costly, only to find that bill has decreed a NEW INDUSTRY
: STANDARD and you are back to square one in 18 months"? 

Well, I meant industry standard in a "let's use Windows NT because everyone
else is using it, without actually seeing if there's a better
alternative" kind of a way.

It's quite depressing the way Microsoft runs its business.  Quite often
you can feel yourself being shoe-horned into using their products
because there is simply no alternative; the Internet Explorer Windows
integratrion issue was just the half of it. Office 2000 and
Internet Information Server are prime examples of how business
engineering can corner a market.

-- 

Angus

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From: creech@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Angus Creech)
Subject: Re: Geeky Question
Date: 2000/04/23
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