Windows XP’s outsized expectations

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Author: JT Smith

A column at ZDNet focuses on the money Microsoft and its partners are spending to promote Windows XP. “Why does a monopolist need to advertise its products at all? I’m not being totally facetious. To
some extent, it doesn’t matter whether anyone wants or needs Windows XP–or even knows it
exists. Its success is almost a foregone conclusion, because Windows XP will be bundled on
practically every PC shipped starting Oct. 25.”