Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 17:48:25 07/03/00
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On July 01, 2000 at 17:19:14, Pete Galati wrote: >On July 01, 2000 at 15:24:56, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>On July 01, 2000 at 14:52:53, Jason Williamson wrote: >> >>>And it was once said that no one would need more then 640K of ram. >>> >>>Jason >> >>Yes, but that statement was made by someone who knew little (and still knows >>little) about the way computing would develop. He was and is a follower not a >>visionary: Bill Gates. >> >>kp > >It's easy to critisize Mr. Gates and his company, I do it all the time. But >he's very good with the consumer market. His company also changed the face of >computing with a PC, for better or worse. The majority of the market needs his >crappy operating systems, bloated and buggy as they are. Not that they can't be >replaced. > >Pete Another quote of Dollar Bill's circa 1994, when IBM had integrated Internet access in their OS/2 Warp product should show his lack of vision with the consumer market: "IBM really blew it putting Internet access into their new Warp product. There's no way Joe Six-Pack and family will ever be getting onto the Internet." Less than a year later, he was scrambling to create a browser for Windows 95, because once again he was wrong. He is a good copier, and will continue to make Windows better, so long as their is something to switch to. But back in the days when there was only DOS, and no competiton, virtually the only thing added to the product were price increases. kp
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