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Story: What Microsoft should do with its pot of gold
Posted by: Tradewalker (Thursday 31 July 2003, 1:33 PM)
Nice idea, but can you really see Microsoft making things easier. Windows XP whilst a big improvement over earlier incarnations causes me no end of problems. Having grown up with Windows 95, etc. I have been used to finding things in a particular place, now with XP the same things are hidden and take longer to find (these are things that the casual user would not normally use, as they would use the supplied wizard, which often has less functionality).
I think the best thing they could do would be to lower their prices to a more reasonable level, that way more people would be likely to update their OS to the latest release, after all if they can practically give the OS to computer manufacturers, surely they could offer upgrade prices to existing users that are more acceptable, after all most shareware program updates are a fraction of the cost of a full product purchase.
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Story: What Microsoft should do with its pot of gold
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Dave..... We already have all that as you kept all... Melangell -
Nice idea, but it wont work. The reason why the Ma... Anonymous
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I'm not a MIcrosoft Fan? (Now who these days would... Anonymous
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First you want a Pentium Mac. Lacking that, you wa... Richard Long
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Errr. what do you think .NET is?
It *IS* the new p... B O'Callaghan
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Why doesnt MS start developing a grafical User Int... Anonymous
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i cannot understand why people should always expec... andrew hylton
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Microsoft have $49bn spare? Looks like they charge... Anonymous
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Nice idea, but can you really see Microsoft making... Tradewalker -
Suggesting MS "ripped off" Windows from the MAC is... Anonymous
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Hello David
I think you're wrong, but I don't have... Mathias Vestergaard
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You must also remember that a start-over will mean... Mathias Vestergaard
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Can I just correct one piece of IT folklore that i... Darren White
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FYI, whoever said Microsoft ripped the GUI from Ma... Lyndell Hockersmith
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Two thoughts, one that would make the IT world a b... jeff w
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Totally agree! Microsoft needs to start over. In... George Lien
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FYI
Apple did not rip off the GUI from Xerox. The... Anonymous
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ah David you sound like a closet Mac addict, not... Anonymous
