* DFS fired off this tart reply:
> At *best*, he's a lying piece of dung.
Speak for yourself.
>> Front-office and consumer computing are too important to be left to
>> the whims and aims of one too-powerful/too-arrogant company.
>
> Who says MS is in control of anything? If companies don't want to use MS
> software, they're free to migrate off Windows anytime. MS can do nothing
> about it.
You miss my point. Microsoft has probably the deepest kind of vendor
lock-in there has ever been in operating systems and office software,
and they're digging in even deeper with the Sharepoint trap.
Microsoft can do what it wants -- increase prices, churn interfaces and
code, generate sub-par software, and there is no alternative that
doesn't involve vast amounts of new purchases, training, and re-coding.
Even on the Internet, Microsoft has enough of a purchase that we're only
now beginning to dig out from the big hole of Microsoft-only sites.
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