Of course, I wish he'd pay a little more attention to Macintosh users and developers, but I don't blame him for avoiding them. I blame Apple, which dissed and sued Microsoft for years, to no positive effect. Think how much farther along we would be today if this relationship was still Apple plus Microsoft, rather than Apple vs. Microsoft. The truth is that the Web will be better served by Microsoft plus Netscape than by Microsoft vs. Netscape. Plus is what most of us want, and it's probably what we'll get, regardless of how the press plays the story.
Markets are more than battlefields.
The OR logic of war and sports get us excited, but tells us little of real substance. For that we also need the AND logic of cooperation, choice, partnership and working together. But the press is caught in an OR trance. Blind to the AND logic that gives markets their full color, the press reduces every hot story to the black vs. white metaphors of war and sports. That's because every site on the Web is AND logic at work.