Re: Open Source Leaving Microsoft Sitting on the Fence?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:13:40 -0000

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In comp.os.linux.misc Nick Landsberg <SPAMhukolauTRAP@spamworldnettrap.att.net> suggested:
> Juhan Leemet wrote:

[Even more Snipped - Followup-To comp.os.linux.misc]

> Being rather a cynic, I have also harbored a suspicion that with this
> business model there is *zero* incentive to make Microsoft
> software efficient. When you buy the "new improved"
> version of Office and it's dog slow on your PC, the party
> line is "buy a faster machine." Since Microshaft is the only

Isn't that among the most important "law" of the wintel mafia, to
suck even more money out of customers?
"Every 18 month, speed of software half's."

In addition, virus scanning and alike might need even more CPU
performance, to give people a warm and fuzzy feeling, while
happily clicking around in a broken, rather undocumented OS until
the next worm or alike reboots their machine, which they had
expected anyway.;) 

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