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Date Posted: 14:47:18 03/23/04 Tue
Author: Bob
Subject: future sales
In reply to: Adilbrand 's message, "Re: A thought about all of the viruses, worms, trojan horses, etc." on 15:19:48 03/22/04 Mon

I actually hadn't heard that one. For one thing they don't sell fixes -- they're free. And upgrades aren't marketed as "fixing" the OS -- instead its an improved set of features.

Now what I have heard MS criticized for (from credible sources) is providing poor interface design for 3rd party developers to interact with the OS and then use their knowledge of the internal design to circumvent the bad interfaces with their own software!

Effectively they make it difficult or impossible for others to compete with MS Office

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