[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.03.30 06:27 AM, John J. Urbaniak typed: ============

>> I would not be suprised if 90% of computer users believed Microsoft
>> invented the Internet.
>>
>
>I would not be surprised if 90% of computer users believed Microsoft invented
>PCs.  This lack of information is a monumental failing of the computer Press.

    The majority of people who read the computer press probably have 
enough knowledge about computers and know better than that. HOWEVER, 
people who aren't particularly computer literate and get their news from 
more generalized sources are prone to cluelessness about it. Especially 
business people - I work with a bunch of MBA business school types and 
they all think Bill Gates waved his hand one day and made Windows 95 come 
out of nowhere, like God creating man from the dust. Blame Fortune 
magazine and CNBC for that one. One of them begged me to bring him my 
copy of the movie 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' because he heard it shows 
how Gates wasn't everything the press has made him out to be.


======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
--------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------

  "Instead of worrying about whether or not the government will stop
   Microsoft from innovating in the future, the head honchos in Redmond
   ought to spend some energy trying to figure out what force has
   prevented them from innovating over the past decade."
       -InfoWorld Editor Nicholas Petreley - December 20, 1999