If they would concentrate on quality and new inventive products like Apple, they would not need to be so paranoid and litigious. Of course, when you are a 90+% monopoly, it is natural to loose all the incentive to innovate. They are happy to hang on to their market share. I guess when you have that much money in the bank, it does tend to make you complacent. They could be advancing computing and helping the world to be more efficient. Some people are happy to rip everyone off and keep the status quo.
Note the difference between that kind of thinking and T Boone Pickens. He was 70 before he made his first billion. He is 80 and is starting a 10 billion dollar windmill farm to generate 4000 megawatts. T Boone will accomplish what all the politicians refuse to do. Bill Gates could do something usefull like that with his money. What could he possibly do that would be better for the world than to find a way to generate all the power we need with renewable sources? ----- Original Message ----- From: "MB Software Solutions General Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [NF] XP Service Pack 3 is out. kam wrote: > Win2000 was the last M$ OS that had less (fewer is for things you can count) > bugs so that it is somewhat usable. That stupid > account activation crap that probably cost M$ billions of dollars in calls to > India destroyed XP and Vista along with all the > other > crap that doesn't work. I'd certainly love to know it they did in fact lose billions...but then again, how much was offset by new purchases (instead of pirated copies)? [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
