When 'good enough' is better
eWeek | at | by Mike
The "best" product doesn't always win since, given advantages of predatory pricing and clever marketing strategy, "good enough" is almost always good enough to carry the day. I'm talking, of course, about Microsoft, its software and its business practices, and if you're a fan of BeOS, OS/2 or another innovative software product that ended up mangled on the side of The Road Ahead, you've seen these sentiments expressed before and you've probably expressed them yourself.
This time, however, it's Microsoft that's facing a pricing and distribution model that it can't seem to match, and it's Microsoft that's beginning to have trouble explaining just how it adds enough value to keep users from spending their tech dollars elsewhere.