Re: M$ - so what should they do?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:33:02 EDT, joe <mvp () joeware net>  said:
> Oh absolutely. I've said it before, they aren't coding for the common good
> of the people. They are a business, to think they would make changes for any
> other reason than financial gain is silly. However, without changes and
> improvement, they won't continue to grow and sell so they need to make
> changes. 

No.. It's "without the *customer perception* of changes and improvement".

That's a crucial point - they can get away with things like packaging up all the
bug fixes and selling it to the customers as a new release only because they
manage to spin it as "new and improved".  And remember - Microsoft knows
how to do marketing and spin better than anybody....

End result is that if the PR campaign *saying* it's better is cheaper than actually
making the product better, they'll go for the PR campaign....

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