From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001 - 11:31:16 IST
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:16:48AM +0100, bscanlan at domain irish-times.com mentioned:
> Don't really see how Microsoft's domination of the consumer Operation System
> market helped kept hardware cheap for the consumer all the same.
Whatever else they did, they brought computing to the masses. We would be
using 486's today, if 600 million people weren't willing to pay £2000 for
something that could run word & excel.
OK, it could be quickly pointed out that there were word processors &
spreadsheets that were popular before Microsoft...but they pushed it
beyond what was reasonable, so that people think they have to use Word for
office notices and sending emails.
Kate
--
When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command:
to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. "
-- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software
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