Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:17:07 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Microsoft (was Re: equal pay)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> I'm utterly baffled by Microsoft's success.  Back in the late 70s I
> wrongly predicted that the company had no future.

The name of the game is Marketing.  Microsoft and Bill Gates are
probably the best marketers in history.

Our current time will probably not be known as the "age of computers"
any more than we refer to post- Gutenberg Europe as "the age of movable
type".  Computers are already starting to fade into the background in
kitchen appliances, TVs, etc.

Rather, we'll be known as "the age of marketing".  The symbol that we'll
leave the future is the Pet Rock.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."