http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D247201,00.asp
- How was Microsoft and the rest of the early PC industry in the 1970s and early 1980s considered "subversive?"
- What comparisons does the author, John C. Dvorak, make between the Microsoft of today and the IBM of the early PC industry.
- How does the author charactherize Microsoft's current relations with its customers? In the author's opinion, does Microsoft more serve buisness clients or home users?
- Based on other articles and movies we have watched this year, what is your personal reaction to this article?
1. Because it was for other people, not just the company.
ReplyDelete2. Both giants in their fields.
3. Rather average. Microsoft keeps it's distance a little.
4. Apathy. I really have no opinion.
1. The early PC industry was considered to be subversive because they were making computers inexclusive. Before, they had been used only by computer programmers and businesses, but were starting to be distributed to anyone and everyone.
ReplyDelete2. Dvorak draws a comparison between the two companies because they both function for big business, rather than for the customer.
3. Dvorak says that Microsoft's relations with their customers, because they live to serve business clients rather than home users.
4. Based on everything we've learned this year, I'd say the article is right on.
1). Microsoft and other computer industrys in the 70's and 80's were considered subversive because at that time the only people that used them where how you say geeks or computer techs
ReplyDelete2). the aouther basiclly says that booth companies were geared more towards big buissness rather than the coustemer but then again i could be wrong.
3). microsoft i think serves the home user just as much as the buissness user.
4). i think this article was right on