RE: arrogance toward customers

[Dave Hamilton <DHamilton@baydweller.com>]

  This is hardly worth the effort...
  
  	Y'know, there's a point that has to be made here.  i think it's
  	a telling one.  You'll note the "Team OS/2" in my signature.
  	That means, of course, that I am an active member of a team
  	that seeks to advance OS/2 use.  You will also notice that it
  	does NOT say Team IBM.  You will notice that our friends, the
  	Linux proponents, also do not support any single _company_,
  	rather they support an idea and the software that comes from
  	it.  The same is true of Team OS/2.  Yet, you can cast about
  	forever, but you won't find a Team Win 95 or 97 or NT.  You
  	WILL find a Team Gates though.
  
  	Hmmm.  That's a hot one that I'll leave for someone else.
  
  	Point is, that you'll never find a Team Win 95 because
  	Microsoft's policy is to invalidate software periodically to
  	get consumers to buy the new version.  There's no profit in a
  	Team Win 95 or 97 or NT for King Billy.  There _is_ a profit in
  	a Team Gates though.
  
  How about the Association of Windows NT System Professionals
  (www.ntpro.org) with its 16,222 members?  And the dozens and dozens of
  NT user groups throughout the world.  Or the Association of Microsoft
  Solution Providers with chapters throughout the US and beyond, made up
  of technology companies that train on, install and support, and develop
  for, Microsoft technologies?  Or do you only count user groups that have
  the word "Team" in their name?  What a silly point you make.
  
  	Point is, that you'll never find a Team Win 95 because
  	Microsoft's policy is to invalidate software periodically to
  	get consumers to buy the new version.  There's no profit in a
  	Team Win 95 or 97 or NT for King Billy.  There _is_ a profit in
  	a Team Gates though.
  
  I guess by this you mean that Windows has evolved through various
  versions?  And OS/2 has not?  Just what was that "Warp" thing, anyway?
  
  Dave Hamilton
  dhamilton@baydweller.com