Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 09:37:13 10/12/99
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> You're wrong: I have partecipated to MS newsgroups a while ago when the > first releases of Mail&News (today Outlook Express) were released. When Microsoft moved into internet software, which they saw as vital to their future, they were far behind Netscape and had to do everything to wrestle the market from Netscape (e.g. IBM, too, changed its big company ways, for a little while at least, when it wanted to move into micros). For things that are vital to them and in which they're behind, they'll hire market research consultunts, listen to users, buy computer press journalists and editors, and do whatever else may be needed to get the market share. But try telling them how to change Windows (where they have monopoly) and watch the next version, see if they listened to you. Or try telling them your wish list for the future GW Basic or MS Fortran (products irrelevant for them), see if they care. Regarding CM, for Matel the professional chess program market is irrelevant, a small, picky market. While individuals at Mindscape may be still interested enough to listen, with these kind of software business buyouts, once the new managment moves in, the best and most creative people, the brains behind the original company, tend leave and the product gets fundamentally worse (albeit with flashier looks) with each new release.
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