being the only one on the market not very good for everyone

[Ahmed]

Microsoft Windows is on 95% of the pcs of the world. It is not good for the
customer:
- Microsoft sells its software the price it wants ! Buy it or buy it !
- Customer may get some innovations after years and years...
- Compared to Mac OS the design of Windows looks so bad !

No competition means no innovation and high prices. We can say that, for the
past 10 -15 years, we also lost 10 years of innovation. Think about it guys,
we could have been working with a much better OS and much cheaper if
Microsoft was the only one on the market.

 

[Jim Macklin]

MS had competition and was the little guy 20 years ago. MS
still has competition today. It is just that people prefer
to use Windows because they can get more hardware and
software at a better price that if they were tied to a
Mac/Apple single source and Linux is just too hard for the
average person who just wants to email Aunt Harriet.


| Microsoft Windows is on 95% of the pcs of the world. It is
not good for the
| customer:
| - Microsoft sells its software the price it wants !
Buy it or buy it !
| - Customer may get some innovations after years and
years...
| - Compared to Mac OS the design of Windows looks so
bad !
|
| No competition means no innovation and high prices. We can
say that, for the
| past 10 -15 years, we also lost 10 years of innovation.
Think about it guys,
| we could have been working with a much better OS and much
cheaper if
| Microsoft was the only one on the market.
|
|

 

[Larc]

| MS had competition and was the little guy 20 years ago. MS
| still has competition today. It is just that people prefer
| to use Windows because they can get more hardware and
| software at a better price that if they were tied to a
| Mac/Apple single source and Linux is just too hard for the
| average person who just wants to email Aunt Harriet.

HAD competition is the operative term here. When it comes to an OS for the
average PC user, Microsoft absolutely has no serious competition now. Even if
they had a lock on "only" 80% of the business, it couldn't be said they were
operating in a really competitive atmosphere.

Lack of intense competition nearly always translates into a higher priced
product of lower quality than would be available if a company had to fight to
earn each sale. The laws of human nature are simply against people extending
themselves a lot more than they have to in order to make money.

But nobody stays on top forever. I still remember when IBM was king of the
hill.

Larc



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