Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> > Oh, one more. Give a little more acknowledgement to Netscape, and make
> > it easier to acommodate NS all around. :)
>
> Yes. But the ability to accomodate NS is directly related to what NS offers
> for integration + the time it takes to do the integration. Perhaps NS 5 will
> allow more integration into other programs or make it easier to do so, but
> MS has NS beat on that count. That's why Intuit picked IE as the "internal"
> browser for Quicken, too.
Good points Jack. Have to call you on this one though . . . what more
can NS do that make their standards and source code publicly available
on the net?
Or are you referring to things MS "doesn't do" (at least, not as long as
the DOJ is looking) . . . like offer the "secret source" and standards
to partners so their products integrate better with Windows, provide
funding to shore up projects, and offer assistance bringing vendors
together so all of their code can be windows-dependant for the long
haul?
Not a very customer friendly decision . . . last I saw my logs, NS was
still way ahead of MSIE despite all of this nonsense. Not many
situations in the world where people making a product intended to
produce something consumable chooses the market lagger as the default
standard to accommodate . . .
Well, while I'm whining, that NT thing is bogus too. As of this
morning's best price check, NT is double the price of Win98 ($279 vs.
$135, and while you can pay less to upgrade within versions, it doesn't
appear you get the "upgrade" discounts when switching from 95 to NT).
It's like they're telling us that their product, which used to work fine
on W95, is now not only more expensive due to "features", but they've
passed off $130 of cost to the OS as well (plus potential RAM upgrades
and much higher disk space consumption). May only be a 10% (or
whatever) increase on cost of HS with new version, but "usage cost" to
me might end up being two or more times the cost of the software
itself. Efficiency probably requires the upgrade (crash time from
resource bugs, waiting for swapping over the course of a project, etc)
Wonder how much more efficient I'd be using the new version and whether
it would pay off . . .
Wonder if anyone in the meetings where they propose all of these new
features asks that question . . .
;)
B
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