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That includes entire nations like India and Russia with huge pools of programming talent who simply cannot afford to be sending Gates and Co. an extra two hundred dollars every time they turn around.

Too bad for them. They cannot afford the best software. Oh well, that means we'll keep our competitive edge for awhile.

Consider, that IBM had a fully functional 32-bit OS with a good 32-bit presentation manager in 1992. Gates and Company, knowing it would be four years (summer of 96, NT 4) before they had anything comparable, told all the software houses in America that if they wrote software for OS2, they'd be out of the loop; they would not have the necessary information to write for 32-bit windows, WHEN it arrived. Unfortunately, everybody pretty much caved.

The problem: the next time America has to wait four years for Msoft to catch up, it might be Japan Inc. or somebody in India who catches up.

Other than that, the notion of calling msoft software "the best" is idiotic. Msoft locks up 80% market shares with a combination of third-rate software and fascist marketing.

Msoft locks up 80% market shares with a combination of third-rate* software and fascist marketing.

Smart marketing, actually.
That's why they're Numero Uno and nobody even comes close.
It's the American Way.
What's wrong with that?
Oh, I know, I know - "it's not fair!"

* Chevys and Fords outsell BMW's - always will.
But any BMW owner will consider Chevys and Fords "third-rate".
Who cares?

Here is how I came to conclusion that macs are made for stupid people. I did some work on a mac and saved it to floppy. Then I tried to figure out how to eject the disk. Lets see, I can’t just right click on the icon and choose the “EJECT” option- only one mouse button. I finally had to ask someone for help. “Just drop the disk icon into the trashcan.” Sure enough, that is how to eject the disk! What is the thought process expected here for someone figuring out the system for the first time? “Oh lets see what happens if I drop my critical files into the trashcan icon, maybe that will eject the disk with my files intact.”