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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: M$ - so what should they do? On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:33:02 EDT, joe <mvp@...ware.net> said: > Oh absolutely. I've said it before, they aren't coding for the common good > of the people. They are a business, to think they would make changes for any > other reason than financial gain is silly. However, without changes and > improvement, they won't continue to grow and sell so they need to make > changes. No.. It's "without the *customer perception* of changes and improvement". That's a crucial point - they can get away with things like packaging up all the bug fixes and selling it to the customers as a new release only because they manage to spin it as "new and improved". And remember - Microsoft knows how to do marketing and spin better than anybody.... End result is that if the PR campaign *saying* it's better is cheaper than actually making the product better, they'll go for the PR campaign.... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040621/895cfee1/attachment.bin
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