Hi,
I find this hard to understand.
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> MS is dominant on the desktop and consumer OS for now simply because its
> competition has been so lame and disorganized.
Sure, I think that MS has some decent software. Encarta is great. BUT,
you just can't ignore MS's predatory tactics. After learning to program
on a TRS-80 and C-64, I did MS programming, because it was fun, and
that's what there was. But over time, you just get sick of MS putting
marketing before quality and the needs of the consumer.
I got into Java because it was wonderful having a nice OO language, and
cross-platform dev. I became viruently anti-MS as I saw how they did
what they could to stop and kill Java.
Other examples abound: Here's a puzzler: Why do you need to install IE
if you want to use MS's XML parser? A VB programmer on Usenet wanted to
know, because he was now in the position of forcing his customers to
install IE, even though they didn't want/need it. This is system design
101: the separation of logic from presentation. I wrote to the XML
project manager and asked if this could possibly be true. Yes, it is.
And no; they don't reall know what they'll do about this "problem". To
me, the marketing strategy is clear. As we've seen a 1000 times before,
here's another way they're using one part of their system to leverage in
other pieces.
And, it also shows them getting away with putting marketing before
quality. Something you wouldn't see in a well functioning market.
>...Sun is no better than MS
> when it comes to locking-in customers and racketting them with upgrade
> "taxes". Only they're less successful at it.
Please show us receipts from having paid "Java Taxes". You're getting a
great language and OO development system for free. And, the fact that
you DECIDED to use it tells me that you find it to have some kind of
substance. This is how the market should work.
I hope my tone hasn't been too much on the attack here, because of
course it is true that with a huge company like MS, some good stuff has
to come out of it. But, you have to have noticed how quality and
competition have suffered over the last 10 years.
- Robb
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