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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!news From: zeljko@netcom.ca (Zeljko 'Zed' Zidaric) Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is Microsoft's Internet plan more about its love of power than about users? Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 15:50:37 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4mspss$9qb@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4mqq8o$6js@news.aros.net> <4mrg49$pok@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tor-on2-18.netcom.ca X-NETCOM-Date: Thu May 09 7:53:48 AM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22089 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:105392 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:136143 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200714 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105204 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48732 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19049 lirpa1@ix.netcom.com(Loof Lirpa) wrote: >If what you said is true, then it makes Bill Gates' success all the >more remarkable. If his software is so "lousy" and yet his office >suite can control so much of the market, it must mean that there are a >lot of dumb consumers and IS managers in this country. Did anybody >ever said that one would never lose money by underestimating the >intelligence of one's customers? :) Actually, You are quite right. There ARE a lot of DUMB consumers and IS managers out there. That is why Microsoft markets their products the way that they do. Remember PT Barnum's quote: "There's a sucker born every minute". M$ knows how to land those suckers. Zeljko 'Zed' Zidaric "Sound argument will have more weight with me than popular opinion." - Cicero, Paradoxa, I, 8.