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What was better?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 07 2013 @ 05:53 PM EST

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.

RAS

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