Re: Wow - M$ Fixes Everything - Blue Screen-of-Death Replaced by BLACK Screen-of-Death

On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:13:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

All too many times we've had our noses rubbed in the basic marketing
fact that it's better to be first than best.

Actually, for too long it’s been “the mightiest marketing machine wins”.
Look at the number of times some company other than Microsoft has
pioneered some concept (the GUI from Apple/Xerox, PenPoint from Go, PDAs
from Palm, the original Netbooks running Linux) only to have Microsoft
come along and grab most if not all of the market by copying the basic
idea (often badly) and simply drowning out competing voices with its
advertising.

Luckily, I think we’re past “peak Microsoft”.