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Story: Longhorn and the Linux long-game
Posted by: Arthur B. (Tuesday 15 March 2005, 10:38 PM)
Vishnu, that's just bull. Gates doesn't care about if Windows works for customers or not. Or haven't you been following the news the last ten years? But you're right that he understands the market. Namely that if you give customers no other choice they're left to swallow whatever you give them (at premium rate).
Take taxes for example. Sometimes I wonder how they get away with it (given that some people are re-elected year after year or promoted into high pay, low effort jobs). Microsoft is no exception to that rule.
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