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Computers, and computer software, are extremly complex. The reason there
are so many incompatabilities between software programs and hardware. If
WIn 98 is bad now, wait until there are 300 versions out there to choose
from. Will this hardware work with this version, will this program work
with this version. It's bad enough as it is, now. Ever hear of the rumor
game, whereby a line is formed of 10 people, a rumor is whispered in the
first persons ear, and see what the last person heard and compare it to the
original. Software development, especially an OS as complex as Win 98, is a
lot like that. When you have thousands of computer programers working on a
product such as Win 98, each having their own idea of how something should
be done, competition to get the biggest raise, (so my idea is better than
yours, who cares if it makes the product better), a majority of the
programmers having no business being programmers, you end up with a product
that is full of bugs. Couple that with the fact that their are millions
more programmers/wannabe programmers designing the software/hardware to
complement the OS, and you have a recipe for disaster. Actually, I am
suprised that Win95, 98, NT work, given the difficulties described above, as
well as they do.
The amount of hours spent in developing a product such as Win 98 is not
measured in a few programmers working for a few weeks to put out the new
operating system. There are probably millions of man hours invested in the
development of Win 98. Comparing a program that displays your quotes on the
computer for you like Windows on Wall Street or Trade Station to WIn 98 is
like comparing the size of an Ant to an Elephant. There is no comparison,
for all practical purposes. Win 98 must be compatable with thousands of
different products, hardware and software. To expect all bugs to be removed
from a software program that has 25+ million lines of code is rediculus. It
will never happen, no matter how much time a company spends debbuging it's
products. Actually, for the price of $90 for Win 98, that is cheap,
compared to other monopolies out there. Take your quote service, you pay
more than $90 each MONTH for quotes. And check out the price for TS or WOW.
Neither of these programs is 100th the program Win98 is. Why the rediculus
price. Those guys make BIll Gates look like a boy scout saving for his
first bycicle. IMO they should be around $3 (for the quotes), to be fair to
all, but, what's fair in the corporate world. Look at the automobiles,
$30,000 for a new car? That's rediculus. How about %60 of your income
every year to help fund the biggest monopoly of all time in U.S. History?
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brent <brente@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Real Traders Forum <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Earl Adamy
<eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: GEN: MS/JUSTICE DEPT RULING?
> This is a very complicated issue. Some have said that a breakup of big M
> would hurt the whole US economy. They said the same about other companies
> though.
>
> I just have a few thoughts (questions) about this puzzle. Why hasn't there
> been any other OS come along to do battle with big M? Say a company in the
> far east wanted to compete. Couldn't they make a knock off OS and sell it
> for $49.95 (cheaper) just like they did with cars, TV's, video
recorders...
> etc? Why didn't Apple, IBM, Xerox, etc. wake up in time?
>
> That's about it.
>
> Brent
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