Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[David Schwartz]

"Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message 
news:a103l1tkejrc99s0385qjqqhm96d46dpc4 at 4ax.com...

> Part of their behavior really escape me.  The whole thing about browser
> wars confuses me.  Web browsers represent a zero billion dollar a year
> market.  Why would you risk anything to own it?

    It really isn't that hard to understand that web-based applications that 
work in any browser on any OS threaten to make it irrelevent what OS you're 
running. MS has a strong interest in making sure it's important to be 
running on one of their OSes.

    DS