From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com> To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Re: Microsoft (was Re: equal pay) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:26:27 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Microsoft (was Re: equal pay) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:16:56 -0500 > sgs at aginc.net 04/04/02 04:17PM > >"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. Nah. . . the Chia Pet . . . mjw The chia pet. _________________________________________________________________