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Originally Posted by kaylick
It amazes me, the arrogance of companys and people. Everytime Microsoft comes out with a new product to compete with someone elses, the news reports, people, and companies all say the same thing. "No way MS can catch up, they should just give up..."
Lets look at the past and see who won against Microsoft. A small sampling.
Lotus 123 vs Excell - MS
Wordperfect vs Word - MS
Novell vs Windows Server - MS
Netscape vs IE - MS
Sony Playstation vs Xbox - TIE hehe
Macintosh vs Windows - MS
VMWare vs Hypervisor - TIE (For now)
Always people say MS can't compete. Those companies above sat on their arrogant asses and said no one can touch us. Microsoft built, listened and changed based on what CUSTOMERS want and blew right past their competitors.
They also have failed at times, but...Pick up and move on forward.
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There are also many times M$ failed at..like Zune vs iPod?
The above instances were fought with M$ having an advantage..biggest being when Windows grew to be like 90% market share..it made pushing software a lot easier...in Netscape's case they mostly lost cause IE was bundled with Windows. The same applies to the M$ office suite...On the xbox 360 suite they got a lot of market share because Sony was suborn and lost Square, they were too focused on promoting blueray and M$ spent a lot of money bribing developers...this time around the competition is already bribing developers..same trick dont work twice..