The Logic Off Topic list

At 02:06 AM 9/07/02 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/8/02 2:20:49 PM, sadus@... writes:
>>This is no biggie; it is just another example of why many users choose
>>win pc's.  Microsoft is again catering to every level of the consumer. 
>
>spppahckahadfkc...oops I spit my coffee out on that comment. Since when has 
>Microsoft, the great white shark of the software business ever done anything 
>noble for the good of the customer. MS is one of the most aggressive and 
>monopolisticly greedy companies on the planet. They wouldn't think about it 
>unless there were more billions to be made.

Catering to them -- that means a product at a pricepoint they can afford.
Computers are still priced like luxury items -- mobile phones ain't. Which
one is penetrating new markets. Everyone knows how the computer industry
conspires to force everyone to keep upgrading and keep spending about the
same amount of money for each new computer. This has paid for R&D --  sure
-- but it has also made a lot of assholes and venture capitalists rich. 

A new model will come -- it has to -- China, India, these are countries
where many more people (a billion?) will have affordable communications
(internet) and computing and before too long. They won't pay what
westerners pay they couldn't.

>And regarding Intel's superiority .....

>Motorola and IBM have had their own problems furthering development of the
>PowerPC architecture, but Intel's RISC so far has been a non-starter.

Aww c'mon -- they have swallowed the Alpha team whole - their RISC
expertise is equal to anyone's now ;-)

Then there's the Itanic -- which may yet rise from the bottom of the
Atlantic and crash into the coast of Newfoundland. HP have contributed more
to McKinley and later versions so it might even be competitive eventually.

Regards,
Murray