Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!unmvax!bbx!mimas!vcl From: vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Bill Gates, in memo, warns of attack and defeat by rivals Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 04:05:51 GMT References: <1991Jun21.125516.17774@compu.com> Organization: Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque NM Lines: 29 fred@compu.com (Fred Rump) writes: > They're failing? I wouldn't mind failing like that any day now. > > I think MS goes where the money is. They have a good feel for the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It sure is. That's all it thinks about. That's why 386 machines are still running an operating system about 10 years old now. > marketplace which IBM does not - despite it's minions of high > priced analysts. IBM keeps trying to change the market, MS flows > with it. > > You give the consumer (the little guy) what he wants and all is > well. Well, what I want (I'm a consumer, a little guy) is something better than MS-DOS. I want a real, multitaking operating system that I don't have to spend $1000 in software, and another $500 (at least) in hardware on (a la Unix). IBM tries to change the market because it knows tha yo can't live on bread and water all your life. I think that Microsoft just tries to push the bread and water in your face until the day you die from malnutrition, and *then* it'll try to find another victim. ----------------------- Victor C. Limary mimas!vcl@bbx.basis.com