IE or Netscape? Netscape all the way.
Bill Gates, 1990: The internet is
a passing fad, ignore it.
Bill Gates, 1995: The internet is eating our
lunch, we need to get on top of that.
IE didn't have the features of
Netscape 1.0 till IE reached version 3.
Did that alter the fact that IE
took over the market? Nope! But not because IE was the better product. It
took over the market because of MS' anti-competitive practices.
The
point:
When a Monopoly is allowed to control the market - it doesn't matter
what the market says - the Monopoly wins.
That's why MS entering the cell
phone market was such a game changer. MS didn't control that market - not even
through OEM's. Because the OEM's that handled the PC market were not the same
as those handling the cell phone market. MS was entering a truly new market to
MS.
And what choices have the users made who had real choice in the
market? Well... judging by the Windows cell phone ..... when markets have real
choice, MS is not the choice.
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