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I'll do it my way if you dont mind.
AND "APPLE" puts out 300-400 buck computers all the time, they just charge a hellava lot more.

Microsoft conspriacy nutjobs are a lot like the jewish revolutionaries in the movie,
life of Brian

They talk about kicking out the Romans because after all , "what have they ever done for
us"?
Well, they built the roads, one replies.
Well, yeah, they did build the roads, but other than that...
Well , what about the aquaduct?
Yeah, I guess they did that too. And the schools, they built the schools.
But other than the schools, the roads, and the aquaduct , what have they done?
Nothing!

Same way with microsoft. We swim in a sea of windows based PCS', and if you have ever used one you can use another.
If you have never used a program the learning curve is lessened by the fact that all of the shortcut keys and functions will work just about like every other program.
In the early days it was chaos, standards were needed.
And its funny, either Jews, the "vast right wing conspriacy", or MICROSOFTS plot
to take over the world, these guys "can't make a decent OS", but they can keep this hugh complicated plot on track.
YOU try to build an OS that will work on every flavor of computer in the world.
If you are handy you can work on a PC, if you need a new one you can take parts off of the old one and save a bit in building the new one.
Thank IBM for a lot of this, but also give credit to micro for making an OS that will work with every incarnation.
And I am not even going into the fact that micro did nothing to stop MP3, EVEN THO IT WAS A RIPOFF FROM mpeg1.
Or Micros behind the scenes help with Divix, or a lot of other things that they never get credit for.
Do they try to acheive hegemony? SURE!
SO DOES EVERY OTHER BUSINESS.
What do you think this "format" war was about in the first place.
If you think any company in MICROSOFTS position wont take some advantage you are not living in the real world