From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 14:29:33 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:28:56 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 21:28:56 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7405 Date: 2001-05-09T21:28:56+00:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org says... > >>You'd think Microsoft would take great pains to *avoid* the "forking" issue. :-) > One might think the airlines could simplify ticketting, meals, etc. and >save money if they had one class, instead of Economy, Business, First. ;) Perhaps, but it ceartianly wouldn't save the airlines any money if they had the different classes flying on different planes using different schedules. B-) The only OS in their panoply that I think you could really make an argument for needing to be separate is Wince. The trick to making money on "discrimintory pricing" is to keep the services provided as similiar to each other as possible. Microsoft already does that quite well with their "student versions" that are the exact same versions of their software, but sold at school bookstores for %20-50 less. Note that a new "student version" of Win2K costs less than a new consumer version of WinMe. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com