Re: HELP!!!!

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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:33:41 -0400 in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Mike Hall (MS-MVP) favored us
with...
> Sorry Stan, but I don't agree.. if the manufacturers and vendors had
> anything about them at all, they would do better for their customers..
> Gateway and Dell have done, so why not the others.. it all comes down to
> profits and tying the customer to their own lousy support..

We agree on that last clause -- the vendors are not blameless in this
either.

But it's a fact, deny it as you like, that the vendors don't have the
bargaining power to stand up to Microsoft. Microsoft's market share
of operating systems is so overwhelming that any hardware vendor in
the mainstream market has no choice but to dance to Microsoft's tune.

As it is Microsoft that has the lion's share of the power, it is
Microsoft that has the lion's share of the blame.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowa-
days, (long pause) you just put in cream." --Julia Child
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