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From: rjacobs@gara.une.oz.au ( ABRI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Microsoft And Friends
Message-ID: <4624@gara.une.oz.au>
Date: 9 Nov 90 03:39:58 GMT
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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Is it my imagination or not, but every magazine I read has more than
one article or regular column on a Microsoft product. Several magazines
have put aside parts of their magazine to be devoted every month to
Microsoft Word, Windows, OS/2, MSDOS etc (I've even seen one magazine with
a regular Excel column). Microsoft does have some very good products, but
the prevalence of specialized articles and columns on these products
when the excellent products of Microsoft's competitors are either ignored
or given small recognition concerns me. 

IMHO the most blatant case of this is the
promotion of OS/2. This is a product that has been promised for a longtime,
but fails to deliver the goods. The market share of OS/2 is very small. Yet,
journals like PC Magazine continue to devote regular columns and special
feature articles to OS/2. Why does this occur when programs like Unix are 
virtually ignored. As a multi-tasking operating system Unix on the PC is
a better program and at a more evolved stage than OS/2. There are
even GUI's for Unix now, to make it more user-friendly. 

Am I being picky or does Microsoft and Bill Gates have lots of friends
who are in the sales, marketing, journalism and communication side of
the computer business and more than willing to help Bill tell us how
great Microsoft products are?

Ross Jacobs