“Almost overnight the PC market has moved from a business
defined by office products to one that is increasingly delineated
by both consumer prices and features.”
“By redefining the computer marketplace and acknowledging the
failure of its strategy to use a single operating system for
desktop machines, Microsoft is leaving itself vulnerable to
competition — just as Intel is being successfully attacked at the
low end of the chip market by companies like Advanced Micro Devices
and Cyrix.”
…
“”This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Jeffrey Tarter, the
editor of Softletter, an industry newsletter based in Watertown,
Mass. “The real problem is the more you look at the innards of
Windows the more complicated and more flaky it gets. I don’t see
any way that they can fix the mess they created without going back
to the beginning.”” …””At a risk of being called sexist, ageist
and French,” said Jean Louis Gassee, chairman of Be, “if you put
multimedia, a leather skirt and lipstick on a grandmother and take
her to a nightclub, she’s still not going to get lucky.””