Mr. Bill Gates..The Best salesman eva! or The Gates n Windows Theory!!

Destiny over Design!!

Mr. Bill Gates as everyone knows is the richest guy on planet earth thanks to his excellent salesmanship. Apart from that the fact remains that he is a self made first generation richest man, must say....commendable! Eva spared a thought as to how hez managed to soar such great heights despite stern competition from all sides.

Hez seen cribbin at every public appearance of his bot the eva risin piracy levels...as if piracy is a concern for him.Sure is for most of the software developers or for tht matter ny type of developer! But aint so for this man, and prolly he too understands that.Lemme explain...

Bill Gates' primary product is the operating system that his company develops...The Microsoft Windows Series. There are several other options available in the market like the Unix,Linux,Solaris,Mac OS and so on.And most of the other operating systems are cheaper than the Windows including a select few versions of Linux which are free too. Its got the biggest drawback of easily getting infected with the various varieties of menace like viruses, trojans and spy wares thanks to the easily exploitable loopholes in its coding. In fact the probability of gettin infected is so high that the official Microsoft website itself claims that in the absence of an anti virus and a firewall an average Windows based system will get infected in 13 minutes flat!! So first u get infected and ur sys conks down and then u install an anti virus which further hogs on ur sys resources almost killin it! Contrast this to its nearest competitor-Linux! Linux had only five types of major viruses documented and as of today has succesfully eradicated them all.Its a virus immune OS. These are jus a few of the concerns over usin the Microsoft Windows.But stil people are hell bent on usin the dreaded windows wid all its drawbacks.

Ask them if they would like to switch to another operating system.Most of these loyalites wud say a big NO. Not even if these operating systems were provided for FREE. Ask them why and they are quick to reply back sayin that the oder operatin systems aint as user friendly as the Windows. Please note here tht most of these people givin the above response dont even kno the names of alternative operating systems available in the market , leave alone havin tried their hands at it! Its a fact tht Windows was the first to launch the GUI( Graphic User Interface) until when even microsoft used to run command line based operating systems(remember DOS??) .And then Windows 3.1 was launched, which changed the way ppl computed! Other companies were a lil slow n tuk sum time to launch their GUI versions and must say tht the initial version sucked! This is where Microsoft built up a reputation for itself as the then safest and easy to learn OS. I also wudnt hav minded buyin a Windows version at a premium for al the eye candy tht windows wud then provide. But tht was then n today all the oder companies hav come up with user interfaces much easier to use and even more powerful systems. So, now is the time people can actively move on to much better, reliable and sturdier operatin systems, in the very first place if they eva wanted to!!

Untill this time windows dint hav a difficult job floatin high in the IT market cos it did so on its merit. But the story changed and companies started buckin up to produce products as gud as microsoft.Most economists wud agree that sustainin a major market share is as difficult a job as attainin one in the first place.Although wid Mr. Bill Gates on the managing board it neva seemed so difficult! What this chap does here on is tricky. Think a lil n temme, is it a very very difficult task for the person developin the entire operatin system to implement a small piece of code to check if the operatin system itself is authentic or not? Def not!! Then y wudnt he do so? Thats the question this whole blogz about. He allows piracy at the grass roots level. i.e. the domestic users. Now when ur daddy wud learn usin a computer on a windows based system, he def wud use the same in his office also, and so wud u do after several years when u join office. He def wudnt take the pain to learn operating a new operating system when his company is ready to pay for the OS which he already knows. Microsoft makes enuf revenue out of its corporate customers to sustain itself. So it really doesn mind allowin its domestic clients usin illegal/pirated copies of its windows cos he realises ki tht is the reason his corporate customers buy his product. The day he starts nailin down the domestic clients they wud obviously switch to free versions takin those extra efforts to learn newer operating systems. N when employees would hav the knowledge of workin on a free OS, y wud a company shell out tht extra premium for Windows?? So our Billu wud neva let this happen in the very first place!This is how microsoft attained and then maintained its position thru all these years.

So Mr. Bill Gates had by now achieved a market monopoly.This helps explain further part of the story.All this was only till the oder operating systems caught up. But how did he cope wid the mounting pressure when operating systems like Suse, Fedora and Ubuntu managed to outsmart the windows?Programs and applications would be generically developed for different operating systems until windows tuk over the market. But a programmer aint a dumbass to waste his time n resources developin code for a percentage of people who wud use his app when the operating system itself retails at a percentage of what windows wud! So here on seein their personal profit and more so logically , most of the developers started developing products which wud primarily run only on windows. Cos they knew tht there aint any profit outta developin code for market shares existin in second order decimals like 0.01%. Thats the saddest part and half the battle won for Mr. Gates. Here Linux bein an open source code OS found support among all the free lancers and slowly started posin a big threat to the gates and the windows!

So today even after several other operatin systems offering much betta features, be it interface or the data security, windows still maintains a market monopoly as seen below(Bar diagram). Even after all this realisation I myself still use Microsoft Windows Xp, reason?? With major developers all launching their products for windows based operating systems, its a difficult task to find a similar form of tech support and wide range of apps being developed for any oder op sys. Microsoft has the kinda loyalty and support for its brand that leaves a third party programmer no oder option but to program for windows or to starve to death codin for any oder OS.

This explains y our own Billu makes so mucha money despite sum serious competition. N who d heck cares to learn nythin new as long as the stuff at ur home is free and the one at ur workplace is sponsored by ur company,neither do I , Njoi!!