Re: More good publicity

>Another way to look at it is: if it is included with the OS, there is
>absolutely a broad need for it. So, if you build a significantly better
>version than the default one included with the OS, the people
>disatisfied with the status quo might choose your product.

Everytime I can think of, whenever MS has bundled in a utility, like
defragment, memory manager, disk cache (from the DOS days) etc, the
competition said something like, "I'm glad MS has included this with
the OS. Users will see how important it is, see that the bundled
version isn't that good, and will want to buy our better product."
And then they went out of business.
.

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