Alternativesto Windows
Opinion
“Microsoftenjoyed its great success not because it had great software but because peoplewere stuck with it. Market domination, not innovation, drove the company’ssuccess,” wrote James Wallace in the book “Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Raceto Control Cyberspace”, John Wiley & Sons, September 1997.
“Thefuture of Windows is threatened less by the superiority of its competition thanthe inferiority of Windows, which results from Microsoft’s misplacedpriorities. Microsoft’s design decisions are driven more by its attempt toprotect its desktop monopoly than by technical excellence.” —Nicholas Petreley,“The new Unix alters NT’s orbit”
1.1 MB QuickTime movie of Bill Gates explaining his criteria for selecting thebest operating system.
“Windowsmachines have advantages, too, such as more configuration options, cheaper upfront cost, availability of software, snappier response on window controls,cheaper components, more peripherals.” —Why Monopolies Are Bad, by JeffAdkins