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Story: Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 23 April 2004, 9:28 AM)
So while MS was touting the benefits of its OS, telling everyone how wonderful it is, etc. they were really selling a system that contained a product in it that literally "addicted" its buyers because changing was too cost prohibitive.
Hmmmm, sounds like tobacco, doesn't it?
Now, if a house were all Mac and wanted to change to Windows or Linux, would it also be cost-prohibitive?
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