[windows2000] Re: OT: I've Had it with Outlook
- From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:04:45 -0800
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Costanzo, Ray wrote:
|>>But wait, wasn't
|>>1,2,3 the #1 spreadsheet app for a while? Why isn't it now?
|>
|>Because MS sold their product for cut rate prices until they gained
|>dominant market share, not to mention tweaking the OS in
|>their favor and
|>against Lotus.
|
|
| Assuming that's true, so what? That sounds like good business to me.
| And if Lotus didn't like these alleged tweaks, they could have created
| their own operating system. More on cars: Should Edelbrock get pissed
| at Mopar for making products that are "tweaked" to work well in
| Chrysler-based engines?
The first one is just good business, the second one was taking unfair
advantage of their dominant os market share, just like standard oil or
US steel.
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Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service
"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." --Murphy's Seventh law of
computing
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