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

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:34:51 -0500, Mitch Stone wrote:

>>IMO, M$ created a market for 400 MHz home PCs to run their bloated
>>programs with the same performance as the previous versions of
>>their less-bloated programs.  As M$ "integrates" more functionality, this
>>trend will only get worse.
>
>Possibly. We can ponder all sorts of historical what-if scenarios, but 
>I'd say that the speed chase was underway long before Microsoft came on 
>the scene.


     None the less the two definitely feed on each other.  If it wasn't
for the large increase in horsepower M$ would have trouble selling such
sloppy code, while the need for even faster machines to run M$ software
drives CPU and memory sales...thus the 'WinTel' duopoly.


--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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