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    • ON: Tue Apr 29th 00:14 AM
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      Microsoft Did Us a Favor - Andreessen
      ugh
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    • ON: Mon Apr 28th 08:26 AM
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      Microsoft Did Us a Favor - Andreessen
      User77690: Over the last 20+ years of PC use I can think of maybe 4-5 times that HARDWARE issues have impacted my productivity, but maybe a MILLION times Microsoft's monopolistic mediocrity has. AAPL is adding NO VALUE to the market by having different hardware. I (and the market) do NOT have a hardware problem. We have a MICROSOFT problem. They need a true competitor on the OS front to improve quality and lower prices. Standard hardware components and a choice of OS's would deliver true value to the market - and the market is not interested in hacking its BIOS to run MAC OS.
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    • ON: Sun Apr 27th 06:47 AM
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      Microsoft Did Us a Favor - Andreessen
      People back in the 80s and 90s thought the market needed a standard OS. What the market needed was for the PC to be commoditized to increase competition and drive down the price. At the time, the hardware costs were very high. IBM set the standard in corporations and those corporations bought the majority of PCs and the PC vendors quickly conformed to the IBM standard. This succeeded in driving down the hardware price, but they were all stuck with MS as the OS. IBM tried to recover by building OS/2 as the MS alternative but they were not nimble enough a competitor. Apple's mistake (both then and now) was thinking that IBM (and the PC compatible vendors) were their competition. Apple's made their hardware different as well as their OS. While their OS was better, their hardware was not. So they had an aggressive campaign to get Apples in schools thinking graduates would demand Apples in their new jobs. That's how they'd outmaneuver IBM. Nonsense. Graduates can't demand anything. IBM controlled the IT Directors who decided the corporate PC standard. Apple should have realized IBM and the "PC-AT compatible vendors" were not the competitors - Microsoft was. If they made MAC OS run on all PC compatible hardware, frustrated Windows users would have had a CHOICE - without replacing their hardware. Corporations could have offered MAC OS as an alternative if they didn't have to replace hardware. Increased OS competition would improve the product and reduce costs. And right now every PC would be sold with BOTH OS's pre-loaded allowing the users to pick at boot time. Vendors would pay Apple or MS based on that choice. Apple is STILL competing against MS AND the hardware vendors instead just MS. Too bad.
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