Nick Zentena wrote:
On November 13, 2001 09:38 pm, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
The Linux ones are free, and the Microsoft ones are shoddy at best. Take a look at a few Windows XP reviews. That's why 3rd party vendors (e.g. Symantec, Powerquest, etc.) are not worried that MS keeps adding features to Windows. The default
Then they should be. The majority of people don't need all the features of most programs. Microsoft doesn't need to add a great program into the OS to cause problems. Just something good enough that people decide to not spend money on something better. Anybody seen a disk cache program for windows lately? How about all the other utilites that Microsoft has added to the OS? Are the Microsoft versions better then the 3rd party ones? What happens is the majority of people stop buying the 3rd party stuff. That leaves just the people who really need the features but often they aren't a big enough market.
Well, anyone that has ever used Defrag in Windows, would RUN to the store to purchase Speed Disk. All Defrag did, was ensure that Norton Utilities would have a future.
Think motherboards. We used to have a whole bunch of companies making add on cards. Almost all those functions are on the M/B now.
The companies are still out there. It's just cheaper to buy a complete system now then building one.