Microsoft is often late to the market on new technologies and when they are they shamelessly will try and buy their success or use their position in the market to attain what they want
But to even question that their strategic idea of bundling software for decades on CD-rom is flawed or would have been better spent trying to have been a leader on internet technology sooner (then may have been its deserved time) does not show complete understanding that for two decades Microsoft was one the most profitable business of any company of their scale, with profit margins that exceeded 90%.
As well given connection speeds for a long time during the 90's, trying to get any form of large files (media,information,software apps) on anything other then CD-roms would have been any awful experience and since not all people had modems but everyone did have CD-roms, I would say Gates attention paid to CD-roms did work out for Microsoft and was the wise choice.
Now of course thats a different story. My CD-rom drive was broken on my laptop when I bought it off of ebay and I don't think I've ever even noticed. Simply because I don't get my information or software by floppy or cds but purely online.
Things have changed and Microsoft has been wrong lately and therefore we have seen them slow to adapt with users, but thats not to say given CD-roms time that what they did was a bad thing or that internet during the 90's without the faster connections could have done it better.
But to even question that their strategic idea of bundling software for decades on CD-rom is flawed or would have been better spent trying to have been a leader on internet technology sooner (then may have been its deserved time) does not show complete understanding that for two decades Microsoft was one the most profitable business of any company of their scale, with profit margins that exceeded 90%.
As well given connection speeds for a long time during the 90's, trying to get any form of large files (media,information,software apps) on anything other then CD-roms would have been any awful experience and since not all people had modems but everyone did have CD-roms, I would say Gates attention paid to CD-roms did work out for Microsoft and was the wise choice.
Now of course thats a different story. My CD-rom drive was broken on my laptop when I bought it off of ebay and I don't think I've ever even noticed. Simply because I don't get my information or software by floppy or cds but purely online.
Things have changed and Microsoft has been wrong lately and therefore we have seen them slow to adapt with users, but thats not to say given CD-roms time that what they did was a bad thing or that internet during the 90's without the faster connections could have done it better.