RE: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public

imho, the big MS strategic error is that they concentrate on market share
and not product quality.  The consequence of this may very well be an attic
full of PC's that we have to tell our great grandchildren about because they
never saw anything so primitive. 
 
On the other hand, Bill Gates gets to tell the story from his yacht.

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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 01/06/05 17:13:50
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public
 
Actually, Booth, Roger Covey did that with BPCS back when Bill was still
in college.  The big difference is that Roger put out minimal
functionality and let the market dictate the direction of the software.
Microsoft puts out broken software.  The fact that you wave off the
hideous quality of MS products with the term "glitches" means that you,
too, have been blinded by the MS concept of "let the customer be the
alpha tester".
 
Joe
 
> From: Booth Martin
>
> Bill Gates has done one thing for our industry and it should not be
> belittled.  The new paradigm is to get software out there for users to
> touch
> and feel.  Don't worry about glitches.  If the users like it, fix it.
If
> they reject it, go on to something else and keep your losses small.
That
> makes sense to me.
 
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