On Fri, 13 May 2011 18:57:02 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

The world is not "stuck" with Microsoft. There are many others: about 50
flavors of Linux, Unix itself, Macs, BSD, and one announced just this
week from Google. If people WANTED a different operating system, they
can, most often, get it for free! As it is, people are voting with their
wallets and the vote is 90% for Microsoft.

And they're voting with the same expertise they use in elections. They
have no idea what they're voting for. They've just been seduced by
clever marketing.

Same thing happened with chips. National Semi's 32016 (or was it 16032)
and Motorola's 68xxx chips were both way better than the Intel offerings
in their time. But they fell to Intel's better marketing.

Need I mention Rand vs IBM?

If you want an example from elsewhere than computers, there's always
bottled water :-).

It's always been "sell the sizzle, not the steak" since marketing was
born.

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw