Shocking Microsoft report
23-04-2004, 16:26
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Shocking Microsoft report
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There is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system [as in not Windows],' he [a MS exec] wrote Gates. 'It is this switching cost that has given customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy version at times...'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...tid=187&tid=99 
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23-04-2004, 16:39
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Re: Shocking Microsoft report
So M$ finally admits that it relies on customer inertia to get away with delivering shoddy products. Not unlike a certain cableco we all know and love. 
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23-04-2004, 16:46
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Originally Posted by towny
So M$ finally admits that it relies on customer inertia to get away with delivering shoddy products. Not unlike a certain cableco we all know and love. |
tiscali??!??!
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23-04-2004, 16:46
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Interesting point about buggy drivers, I can't think of any hardware manufacturers drivers that haven't at one stage or another been free of some kind of bug, at least Microsoft admit it and generally do something towards fixing them.
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23-04-2004, 22:17
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Originally Posted by towny
So M$ finally admits that it relies on customer inertia to get away with delivering shoddy products. Not unlike a certain cableco we all know and love. |
W00t!! Hey, guess what, this post earned me a red rep from sir drinks a lot! 
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23-04-2004, 22:19
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Originally Posted by towny
W00t!! Hey, guess what, this post earned me a red rep from sir drinks a lot! |
LOL, did he leave a reason? If so, how bizarre was it?
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23-04-2004, 22:24
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LOL, did he leave a reason? If so, how bizarre was it?
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am no troll you know that as well as i do
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I was asking for it I suppose, I had the cheek to red-rep a piece of his trollish activity in another thread earlier (and I can't actually remember which piece off the top of my head  )
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23-04-2004, 23:41
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Originally Posted by towny
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I was asking for it I suppose, I had the cheek to red-rep a piece of his trollish activity in another thread earlier (and I can't actually remember which piece off the top of my head )
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Heh .. I was hoping for something a little more strange.
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