Re: FW: Appraissing M$ successfullness

[Luc-Etienne Brachotte <Luc-Etienne.Brachotte@art.alcatel.fr>]

  chuck wrote:
  > 
  > HOWEVER - NT was originally poised to take over the world
  > by running on Intel/Alpha/PowerPC & MIPS, but that threat
  > has been alleviated - support for PowerPC and MIPS has been
  > dropped, leaving the world safe for IRIX and PowerMacs to
  > survive on their own merits. So NT/Mips and NT/PowerPC
  > should definitely be on the list.
  
  I wonder why M$ didn't spend in fact much energy to impose NT on
  workstations? Was it only for anti-trust reasons? Or did they realize NT
  was not stable enough ? Or was it because workstations-users are more
  skilled, won't accept to reboot 3 times a day ?  Or because NT is not
  really ready for 50 or 100 stations ?  Or did Sun, HP and others spoke
  more loudly than M$ ?  Or was simply the market, which didn't buy NT on
  stations ?  Or several of those reasons ?
  
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