-=> Quoting Justin Baustert to Mike Angwin <=-
 JB> Microsoft does have an inferior product, the people aren't given a choi
 JB> begin with.. (I'm speaking of Win95 here).
 
 MA> OS/2 and Unix are offered
 MA> plus Apple is still out there  plugging away. A choice most
 MA> certianly does exist for those who  desire it. It is not a questionof
 MA> lack of choice, simply lack of a  reason to exercise that choice.
 JB> I'd like to know one major preload vendor who will load OS/2 or Unix
 JB> and give  support..  As far as I can tell, the folks who have purchased
 JB> Macs have made  informed decisions, but that is truely the only option
 JB> available for those  that even know about Apple..  IBM (w/respect to
 JB> OS/2) doesn't want to deal  with the home market (unfortunately).
 So? why is this Microsoft's problem? the competitors are there, and it
 is not the fault of Microsoft if they don't do as good a job of
 marketing their product. This is basic economics, if you don't do a
 competent job of marketing your product, then someone else will get the
 business.
 JB> Do you know why?  Microsoft took out more than just IE, they reduced
 JB> functionality across the board..
 
 Not the business of the court.
 
 MA> Why no just let the marketplace take care of  itself?
 JB> That might just happen, especially with names like IBM, Novell,
 JB> Netscape,  Sun, and others who are teaming up to make Java-based
 JB> applications a  reality.. With Java, it is no longer inherent that the
 JB> OS running those  applications comes from Microsoft.  Do you realize
 JB> that the reason Microsoft  is in the position they are in is because of
 JB> their strangle-hold on the  preload market?  When Microsoft can no
 JB> longer leverage the market with  proprietary applications running on
 JB> top of their own OS, they are in  trouble..  I'd rather see things
 JB> happen this way instead of whatever the  goverment is trying to do.  It
 JB> turns out that Microsoft might just have a  better excuse now for
 JB> Windows97 not being released until late '98, and NT5  not making it out
 JB> until mid '99.. 
 What section of the constitution gives the Federal Government the right
 to tell Microsoft how to run their business?
 david.hartung@mcione.com
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