[Rant] Microsoft extend their monopolistic behaviours (again) | ANN.lu |
Posted on 11-Aug-2002 13:33 GMT by Cyberwlf | 56 comments View flat View list |
Microsoft have cracked down on retailers trying to sell alternate OS's when they sign a contract to sell Windoze. (This theoretically effecting people selling Amithlon pre-installed, or the likes). Essentially saying... :
(from slashdot.org) "Some Sys Admin sent in an email that he got from Dell which basically says Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system. " - But if you think this was only Dell, the wording seems to effect all retailers, read article for more information: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208.
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Posted by DaveW on 12-Aug-2002 10:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 21 (takemehomegrandma): I agree with you. If an OS "bundle" is general purpose then it has to compete head on
with Windows before it has a solid large marketplace. A sensible strategy is to
make it "specific purpose" to start with and grow from there.
Amiga originally started with the home creative - game playing and drawing pictures ( DPaint )
and the PC started with the home business user.
Atari ST went for the home creative - game playing and music ( notator and midi )
Apple Mac went for the publishing market.
Well, to be fair initially they were not targetted at those markets but the strengths
of the OS and hardware combination attracted the markets they ended up dominating.
All expanded and only the PC really succeeded overall, as we now know.
The OS has to be capable of general purpose in order to cope with functional expansion
but it has to attract an initial core market.
What was it for BeOS? Anti-Microsoft users dont make a market to which you can sell
commodities.
Whats that for the Amiga nowadays? None of us know for sure.
I think it has to be the home creative again. That means great GFX packages, some good games a good music package
and a good development environment. That has to be a bundle, or something you can
put together reletively easy after just shelling out on the OS.
Sure Candy Factory is nice but it isnt going to bring people flocking to the platform again.
Look at the non user friendly graphics packages that are out there at the moment?
I wonder how many people bought STs and Amigas because of STOS and AMOS. Got to be quite
a few I reckon.
So, good dev env for gaming, good art and music packages. Average office utilities. What sign
do we see of these on the platform?
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