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[Geoffrey]

Gene Gaines wrote:
> 
> >From Network World
> 
> Best products: User picks
> IBM and Cisco remain perennial favorites while Microsoft lags
> in popularity among readers who participated in our third
> annual Best Products survey.
> 
> By Julie Bort
> Network World, 11/12/01
> 
> "When it comes to brand names in the network industry, Cisco and
> IBM glow as golden as a monarch's crown. In comparison,
> Microsoft would best be described as gray; frequently the market
> share king but never the user's favorite.

Uh, yeah, it's called a monopoly.  What does it take for the DOJ to
figure this out?


> Participants voted IBM the winner in each of the four
> categories in which it was listed. Cisco, too, won all three of
> its categories. Microsoft won none of its three, even when it
> owned the biggest market share among participants - a
> circumstance unique to Microsoft.

Uh, yeah, it's called a monopoly.  What does it take for the DOJ to
figure this out?

Seems to be an echo in here...


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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

"...the system (Microsoft passport) carries significant risks to users
that
are not made adequately clear in the technical documentation available."
- David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research
- http://www.avirubin.com/passport