Thursday, September 16, 2004
Internet Explorer:
Microsoft continues to decline, as can be seen by the falling Internet Explorer numbers.
I don't know how they are going to survive the overwhelming number of lawsuits not to mention their falling market share all over the world. If they do manage to live through this one, surely this is additional evidence of the obscene profits they have made, at all our costs. I have no problem with innovators making a profit for their efforts. I do have a problem when they operate in such a fashion as to leave the customer to deal with their mistakes, or pay them to fix a product, defective from the day of purchase. They also, very aggressively, attempt to stop anyone from fixing the problem themselves unless they want to do it the Microsoft way, developers copies come to mind. Anyway, so long Microsoft, you were great in the beginning, but the profit went to your head. You got way, way too greedy.
Microsoft continues to decline, as can be seen by the falling Internet Explorer numbers.
I don't know how they are going to survive the overwhelming number of lawsuits not to mention their falling market share all over the world. If they do manage to live through this one, surely this is additional evidence of the obscene profits they have made, at all our costs. I have no problem with innovators making a profit for their efforts. I do have a problem when they operate in such a fashion as to leave the customer to deal with their mistakes, or pay them to fix a product, defective from the day of purchase. They also, very aggressively, attempt to stop anyone from fixing the problem themselves unless they want to do it the Microsoft way, developers copies come to mind. Anyway, so long Microsoft, you were great in the beginning, but the profit went to your head. You got way, way too greedy.
# posted by Wil Smith : 7:21 p.m.
