On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:55:48AM +0000, Fred Labrosse wrote: > Peter Wu writes: > > > > Microsoft creates features that customers demand so that they can > > sell their products and make money. > > > > I did not follow the thread at all, but when I read that, I jump. No, > Microsoft does not create features that customers demand. They create > features and work very hard at convincing their customers that they need > the features.
Well, features are demanded by customers. Otherwise, why does Microsoft
invest so much money on some features that nobody will buy in?
> How many "features" of Word does a regular user use? Never thought that
> the singing and dancing dog (i'nit cute ;-) in the "search" application was
> just a waste of time and resource. And so on, and so on...
How many features in your VM and XEmacs does a regular user use?
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