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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:24:38 +0100, Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <907103252snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>, Phil Hunt
><philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> writes
>>> Old or superceded does not equate to useless.
>>
>>Microsoft's entire business strategy is based on making old software
>>useless, so you have to buy newer software (from them of course).
>
>Microsoft's business strategy does not render older software useless.
>Their stragety is to affect public perception so that people believe
>that they MUST have the latest release.

	Thus network effects slowly work to make the previous
	release pretty much useless. What value is MSWord if
	you can't keep up with all the twits that insist on
	sending you MSWord files.

>
>Are we really basing all our expectations for the next 50 years in the
>IT industry on what Microsoft has done in the past 15 years?
>
>A LOT of people did that with IBM about 20 years ago.


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Hardly. Microsoft has brought the microcomputer OS to
the point where it is more bloated than even OSes from          |||
what was previously larger classes of machines altogether.     / | \
This is perhaps Bill's single greatest accomplishment.    

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