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Re: [News] [Rival] Robert X Cringely Explains Why Microsoft is Nasty

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>| Cringely: Maybe "mean" is the wrong word to use for Microsoft. "Ruthless" is 
>| good. The company is built in the image of Bill Gates and Bill is a guy who 
>| gets caught-up in the game of business and doesn't typically see its personal 
>| cost. To use what might seem to be an obscure example, just look at all the 
>| various partnerships and industry consortia that Microsoft has announced 
>| through the years that never produced a product or even a usable 
>| specification. There have been literally dozens of these operations that are 
>| intended solely to freeze the competition until Microsoft can figure what the 
>| heck it actually wants to do. To Microsoft its a PR exercise that helps them 
>| compete but to customers it is just a damned lie. That's ruthless. There are 
>| plenty of other examples I can give but you get the point. I represent the 
>| concerns of users, not vendors, and Microsoft doesn't really care about 
>| users.            

Dirty tricks are what Microshaft does best.


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