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Article #66770Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
From: be... Mercedes Turville
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <n539...@ianlynch.demon.co.uk>, i...@ianlynch.demon.co.uk (Ian Lynch) wrote: >aued...@idg.co.uk (Steve Turnbull) wrote: > >> The pervasive presence of the PC demonstrates that technical superiority >> is not relevant. Marketing is the important element. > >Or to be less politically correct, the ability to mislead the customer >without incurring the wrath of the trading standards watchdogs. What is the point of technical superiority if it isn't marketed "correctly?" It seems to me that all those who bellyache about the smoke and mirrors marketing techniques of MS are, in fact, jealous that *their* niche OS -- OS/2, Linux, name your flavor -- didn't have the same marketing push. After all, how else is the world to know of a better mousetrap? And don't say that IBM marketed OS/2 with gusto, because its efforts fell way short with the introduction of Warp ... and came way too late.
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From: be...@new.net (Mercedes Turville) Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft! Date: 1997/01/28 Message-ID: <5clbhb$9bj@nw101.infi.net> X-Deja-AN: 212795842 references: <32e8224c.175753105@news.mindspring.com> <petrichE4ICtD.HCG@netcom.com> <32f1a9a2.4458096@news.servtech.com> <19970127.151629.36@acornuser.idg.co.uk> <n53903422@ianlynch.demon.co.uk> organization: On a good day only, very rare newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit