“What does the world get for the 10% Microsoft tax on every [Windows] PC,” asks Lee Gomes for The Wall Street Journal? “Is the innovation from Microsoft commensurate with the awesome resources it has been given? The average Microsoft customer probably wouldn’t say so. Indeed, the advances the company lists for its new products all too often involve fixing shortcomings of earlier products, such as security and reliability in the case of its operating systems, and ease of use with its Office suite.”
Gomes writes, “In fact, you can argue that genuine innovation is the last thing monopolists want, since it threatens to upset the very applecart that made them rich in the first place. When asked which research from its labs has made its way into Microsoft products, the list from Microsoft officials doesn’t exactly bowl over a listener: better software-verification techniques, digital media-player technologies, additions to the SQL database language… Of course, Microsoft’s research group is still young, and its best years may still be ahead. They had better be. PC taxpayers might start rebelling.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This from The Wall Street Journal? If this keeps up, you’d start to think the world was waking up or something.
Hey! Microsoft brands a pretty good 2 button mouse.
Switcher–Holy Shit…. I am stunned.. I read these stories.. I can’t believe people are soooo clueless.. Future Shop is pretty much ‘hiding’ the Macs…
Fsck them.
And the customers are pretty smart, not knowing that MS Office was on a Mac… That’s a VERY POPULAR misconception..
(Its like converting to a new religion for them or something.)
Well.. Brand Religion to be precise.. one of the strongest brands on the planet…
And Apple Corps eat my shorts
Jack, the salesman seemed more concerned with the �1000 of ‘free software’ (some crap encyclopedia and a few dodgy games), telling me that there aren’t ANY games for the Mac. Yes, you heard right, he said there are zero, zip, zilch, nothing, no games at all for the Mac…
Well after I started up THPS4 on the iMac he was standing next to as he made his claim, he didn’t really have much more to say!
We all need to stand outside PC stores and wave huge banners, urging people to buy Apple, how do these idiots get employed to sell computers, when they clearly don’t know what they’re talking about?
I rebelled against Micro$oft by not buying a personal computer until I could afford my 17″ iMac.
Good things come to those who wait.