Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>| Cringely: Maybe "mean" is the wrong word to use for Microsoft. "Ruthless" is
>| good. The company is built in the image of Bill Gates and Bill is a guy who
>| gets caught-up in the game of business and doesn't typically see its personal
>| cost. To use what might seem to be an obscure example, just look at all the
>| various partnerships and industry consortia that Microsoft has announced
>| through the years that never produced a product or even a usable
>| specification. There have been literally dozens of these operations that are
>| intended solely to freeze the competition until Microsoft can figure what the
>| heck it actually wants to do. To Microsoft its a PR exercise that helps them
>| compete but to customers it is just a damned lie. That's ruthless. There are
>| plenty of other examples I can give but you get the point. I represent the
>| concerns of users, not vendors, and Microsoft doesn't really care about
>| users.
Dirty tricks are what Microshaft does best.
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