Very insightful comment hear on how people bought software in the 1990s. " Microsoft Office, the company's marketing bet that combining a series of high-quality business applications into a semi-integrated suite would beat the best-of-breed approach still advocated by its competition, was paying off handsomely. WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Quatrro, Paradox, dBASE, Harvard Graphics, and other competitors were all fast retreating into irrelevancy" In Search of Stupidity , 2nd Ed, Merril...