Re: CFA: Microsoft overcharges consumers $10 billion in 3 years

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Steve Cohen on 1/12/99 6:42 PM ---

>One thing I guess you can credit Windows for - making mass computing possible
>and forcing the demand for more powerful machines, and therefore the supply
>of them.  Without it would the 486 be the majority machine of choice today?
>What would a Pentium cost?

I don't suppose Moore's Law would have been suspended if Microsoft hadn't 
been driving the need for more processing power to run its bloated 
applications and OSs. The quest for faster crunching is _the_ story of 
computer evolution -- Microsoft has only assured us that we'd get less 
raw benefit from the astonishing increases in power we've seen over the 
last few years. That's why I find Gates' remarks so ironic.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net