By Andy McCue
Published: Wednesday 24 March 2004
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Name
Bob Hallsworth
Location
Sandhurst, UK
Occupation
Managing Consultant
Comment
Without Microsoft's innovation, the computing industry would be nowhere near what it is today.
Monopoly or not, the power of the Microsoft Desktop and Application is delivering business benefit.
To further the previous analogy, without Microsoft, we would be putting torches on a model T Ford.
For businesses to be able to get away with saying "We can't produce products as good as Microsoft, so stop them doing it" seems perverse.
Bob
IT seems to be the only industry where a clear mon...
Richard james
Microsoft has known about this case and the possib...
Anonymous
Without Microsoft's innovation, the computing indu...
Bob Hallsworth
Without knowing all the facts of the case, this is...
Mike McCreadie
Microsoft is getting undue criticism here I think....
Anonymous
I feel that Bob (above) has forgotten a little his...
David Tyrrell-Collins
"I remember what things were like before Microsoft...
Richard Ash
Richard, you say, "I moved to a Linux Destop and 6...
Mike McCreadie
The role of trade practice and antitrust legislati...
David Mohring
Linux developers have done a good job for the serv...
Bob Robinson
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