Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway
Ted Kircher (kircher@realtime.com)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 08:35:53
Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19980505083553.0e87a876@realtime.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 08:35:53 To: roundtable@cni.org From: Ted Kircher <kircher@realtime.com> Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway In-Reply-To: <19980505185745.AAA7767@chip.caiwireless.net>
On 5/5/98, Chip Copeland <analyst@wirelesscabl.com> wrote:
>
> The fact is however, there is a choice and it's not Microsoft who is the
> reason that Apple is in the shape it is in concerning corporate sales.
> I'm not a pro or anti Microsoft, I just don't see how the current state
> of information technology is all their doing. A lot of business
> decisions went into creating this situation. I really don't think that
> massive anti trust actions will solve any actual or perceived problems
> either. The current efforts and successes of Steve Jobs seem to
> indicate that a better product brought to the market could create the
> next Bill Gates.
Chip, I agree w/ everything you said - except for the last line.
My main reason is that the percent of functionality to a user from the
operating system is *reducing* - in spite of the current browser issue
and Windows 98. That is because every enhancement of the operating
system and the cost performance of the underlying hardware is spawning
a vast set of new and more sophisticated applications - all 'glued' to
*that* operating system.
As a result, the possibility of replacing the defacto Microsoft
operating systems will become less over time - unless Gates make a
phenomenal mistake.
Assuming this premise, I have made recommendations on how to 'force'
Microsoft to be fairer in dealing w/ other software groups while still
being allow to 'absorb' new functions that have proven themselves in
the marketplace - web browser just being one of the latest examples.
Ted Kircher
Information Age Consulting ("Exploiting Technology for Society")
6618 Lost Horizon Drive, Austin, TX 78759-6117, USA, 512-335-1149
<kircher@realtime.com>
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