Re: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public

[Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But they make it up in volume...

On 1/6/05 02:07 PM, "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The last I heard X-Box costs MS $100 per unit sold.
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> This thread doesn't seem very midrange-related...
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> Personally, I've used MS-Money for years (and like it).  It may not be
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> fancy but it works.  I wouldn't call it a disaster, just not well promoted,
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> much like the iSeries.  (See, I'm trying to keep this somewhat
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> midrange-related.)  Much like many other Microsoft products it has the bare
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> minimum of features.  Still, it does what I need it to do.
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> I would also disagree and say that the X-Box has been very successful.
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> Microsoft Bob might have been laughable but it did evolve into "clippy" as
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> Dave Parnin
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> we know the great products that MS has scarfed, barfed, and destroyed like
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> WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, & Netscape.  But are there examples of MS
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> that have been utter disasters?  Microsoft Bob, MSMoney, msnbc, and MSN ISP
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> are some that come to mind but there must be others?  X-Box?
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> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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> MS would find a way to crash a VCR...(blue clock of death)
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>> NICE catch Jerry. Interesting read.
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>> And it brings up a GREAT point. Microsoft wanting to move into the
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>> electronics market. My TV works fine. My VCR (when used) works fine. My
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>> player works fine. Etc, etc, etc. I cannot IMAGINE what a mess Microsoft
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>> could make of all of this...
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