[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 23 May 2005 19:17, Puneet Lakhina wrote:
And about windoze or M$ bashing , i guess the desktop worrld can
learn from it a lot and anatgonism is never gona be helpful windoze
does have some good features thats why so many people use it....
And like it or not M$ is good at marketing what its got no matter
how crappy. Moreover MS is the company that over the years has made
the least amount of bad business decisions.
Going by the fines they have paid (> $3billion) does not look like
that at all. It is not even good at marketing (wether M$ has it or
not is not even relevant to them), it simply robs other companies
of their ideas and then fights in court until the opponent goes
bankrupt. In lay mans terms it's called bullying.
So take the good from
M$ and Windoze rather than just bash it... I mean Lotus made
mistakes IBM did ..
Lotus did not make mistakes. M$ changed the win APIs and not only
did not provide it to other vendors (Novell, Lotus, IBM etc) but
also deliberately introduced bugs to prevent the victims software
from running. That is what those fines were for.
Lotus guys were actually (from my point of view) stupid. They made the
best software that was available at that time. They had huge lead over
everyone else. Then they went to sleep. They did not come up with
worthwhile updates. In fact, they did not come up with updates at all
for a long time . Meanwhile, MS came up with excel, which was a major
improvement over Lotus and simple swept the market.
By the time IBM took over Lotus, the spreasheet and office software
market was gone too firmly to MS. Only thing still left was Lotus Notes.
Regards
Saswata
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