Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[ZnU]

In article <497dee06$0$1934$ec3e2dad@news.usenetmonster.com>,
 "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> wrote:

> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
> news:rImfl.9$8O.5@newsfe06.iad...
> > amicus_curious wrote:
> >> Can you seriously believe that another office suite or graphics
> > > package or OS platform can make any headway against things like
> > > MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, or Windows itself?
> >
> > Can you seriously believe that another browser can make any
> > headway against things like Internet Explorer?
> 
> Browsers are free for the taking.  No money in browsers.  Why bring them up? 

There's lots of money in browsers, via search engine placement, i.e. 
advertising.

Of course as I've pointed out previously, this isn't necessarily a model 
that can be usefully transfered to most other application categories, so 
there might not be any general lesson about the financial viability of 
zero-cost software here.

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