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On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:13:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> All too many times we've had our noses rubbed in the basic marketing
> fact that it's better to be first than best.

Actually, for too long it’s been “the mightiest marketing machine wins”. 
Look at the number of times some company other than Microsoft has 
pioneered some concept (the GUI from Apple/Xerox, PenPoint from Go, PDAs 
from Palm, the original Netbooks running Linux) only to have Microsoft 
come along and grab most if not all of the market by copying the basic 
idea (often badly) and simply drowning out competing voices with its 
advertising.

Luckily, I think we’re past “peak Microsoft”.