On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:33:02 EDT, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Oh absolutely. I've said it before, they aren't coding for the common good > of the people. They are a business, to think they would make changes for any > other reason than financial gain is silly. However, without changes and > improvement, they won't continue to grow and sell so they need to make > changes.
No.. It's "without the *customer perception* of changes and improvement". That's a crucial point - they can get away with things like packaging up all the bug fixes and selling it to the customers as a new release only because they manage to spin it as "new and improved". And remember - Microsoft knows how to do marketing and spin better than anybody.... End result is that if the PR campaign *saying* it's better is cheaper than actually making the product better, they'll go for the PR campaign....
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