I would have to disagree. I used to have this problem with on-line ticket purchases from American Airlines, They chose to adopt a similar attitude: You want to buy your tickets online and not pay a premium then use IE. Mind you, at the time I was an Executive Platinum customer with AA. I am no longer. I am not flying them anymore and neither is anyone else in my company because it is just too much of a pain in the ass to use thier website. I am not installing MS anything just because of some one's really bad dev decisions. So you tell me- How many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars has this one instance alone cost American Airlines? I really have to disagree; someone there is really dumb.
This "prediction" is already manifesting itself today. The only way that it will take five years to come to fruition is if MS is again successful in stifling technological innovation long enough to allow MS to catch-up and develop some crappy software standard to try and monopolize internet entertainment to their platform. This time the cat is already out of the bag and it just ain't gonna happen. Both the entertainment industry and tech players other than MS are moving in other directions. Good luck stopping the train long enough this time Bill.
Ever since Goethe wrote Fauste we have known it was fiction. Why should we see Novell's spin on this deal with the devil any differently. I for one will, from this point forward, look at Novell as the company playing with Mephistopheles.
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I would have to disagree. I used to have this problem with on-line ticket purchases from American Airlines, They chose to adopt a similar attitude: You want to buy your tickets online and not pay a premium then use IE. Mind you, at the time I was an Executive Platinum customer with AA. I am no longer. I am not flying them anymore and neither is anyone else in my company because it is just too much of a pain in the ass to use thier website. I am not installing MS anything just because of some one's really bad dev decisions. So you tell me- How many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars has this one instance alone cost American Airlines? I really have to disagree; someone there is really dumb.
This "prediction" is already manifesting itself today. The only way that it will take five years to come to fruition is if MS is again successful in stifling technological innovation long enough to allow MS to catch-up and develop some crappy software standard to try and monopolize internet entertainment to their platform. This time the cat is already out of the bag and it just ain't gonna happen. Both the entertainment industry and tech players other than MS are moving in other directions. Good luck stopping the train long enough this time Bill.
Ever since Goethe wrote Fauste we have known it was fiction. Why should we see Novell's spin on this deal with the devil any differently. I for one will, from this point forward, look at Novell as the company playing with Mephistopheles.