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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:22:25 GMT, pet...@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
wrote:

>>Microsoft
>>has set the defacto OS standard for the past 15 years,
>>and we have all benefited from this standard.
>>
>	Again, horseshit. It's meant a heck of a lot of wasted time and 
>computer unusability.

I'm sorry you don't see my point, but it doesn't change the fact that
millions of people are enjoying the benefits of using a computer, who
might otherwise have never tried it. It's oh-so-easy to grouse that
this or that OS/GUI is superior, while overlooking the addition of
those millions of productive users to the computer world.

>The computer industry is much, much
>>bigger than it would have been without MS - the result of having
>>DOS/Win available as the standard OS/GUI on the major PC platform. 
>
>	Yet again, horseshit. There were several desktop contenders from 
>the late 1970's to the late 1980's. I'm sure that there might have been 
>some other "winner" if M$ had never existed. And probably a superior one.

Sure. We each could speculate that this or that platform 'could' have
been the one to be the standard, had Microsoft not existed. But this
is also missing the point - Microsoft DID exist, DID dominate the
market, DID create an industry standard. 

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