On Jan 30, 2008 12:58 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <<a href="mailto:barry@vonahsen.com">barry@vonahsen.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Matthew Nuzum wrote:<br>> I'm excited to see what would happen to the computer industry if Microsoft<br>> started to feel like their monopoly is threatened.<br><br></div>MS would deploy the army of lawyers?<br>
<br>eventually MS will morph their passive aggression into full-blown<br>aggression, rather than actually attempt to compete<br><br>or we could hope that they stop making good-enough products and make<br>good ones, but I'll poo in the other hand, and see which one fills up first<br>
</blockquote></div><br>If you look at the IE6 -> IE7 backpedal, where they announced there would be no new browser upgrades except for operating system upgrades, then changed their mind when firefox started getting big marketshare, I'd say there is hope. I still like FF more than IE7 but IE7 is sooooo much better than IE6 and I will say that it is better at a couple things than FF. (font rendering is the biggie) MS can innovate when pressured to do so.<br>
<br>You're not wrong though about the attack lawyers... seems to be their plan for office suite competition.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode