Re: Microsoft and MACs

[stan johnson <sjohnson@gwi.net>]

** Reply to note from esoteric@denali.atlnet.com Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:14:10 -0500
> Through my own paranoia and thanks to Microsoft, I no longer
> register online. I always do it now via the postal service.

Taking any bets on how long it'll be before M$ begins to require on-line
registration? I'd think about 1 year after the full registration requirement
is implemented. Even large corporations or agencies, with perhaps
ordinary desktop pcs not internet-connected, will have a few IS
professionals connected for downloading and support. And they can do
a batch registration of some sort. 

This all assumes that the information is of value to them, for whatever
purpose... And of course all we'll ever know about that is what they
decide to tell us. 'Trust me; would I lie to you?'

Strange to sit here, looking at an on-coming all-conquering steamroller,
and being totally impotent to do anything whatever about it. Except not
buy M$ software, of course, which I have been pretty successful at,
though not totally.

Yet another illustration of the great power of a monopoly. They can do
whatever they want, and most everybody has to accept it. Especially
with the Office/interoperability link that folks have been talking about of
late. (You have to have Office because everybody else does, and the
formats are incompatible. And they are damned sure going to remain
incompatible...)

stan

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Stan Johnson Team OS/2
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03/11/99 02:58pm