The people love Windows XP 10142
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:47:58 -0400, Larry Qualig
For the most part, people just go with the flow. They don't really make educated choices about anything, they just pick whatever is right there in front of them. This often applies to religion, politics, schools, cars, homes, jobs, even spouses!
The trick of course is to make sure that your product is the one that is readily available in front of the majority of the people so they don't go looking around. This is what M$ does, and why they are currently the majority leader on the desktop.
There is nothing wrong with this per se, it's just the way that they do it that is despicable. If someone wins a popular vote just because they are out there in front of as many people as possible winning hearts and minds, that's one thing. But when they win the vote because they are threatening people that might vote for the other guy that's something totally different.
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The people love Windows XP 10143
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