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New Didn't need to read past this:
Our aim was to come up with an objective measure of performance--one that was unrelated to arguments about market power, monopoly position or predatory tactics. This meant we excluded any consideration of measures like market share or profitability, and focused instead on the ratings given to Microsoft products by independent reviewers.

Translated: We chose to ignore the reason that they were able to achieve the thing we chose to focus on.
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
New So they then miss some obvious factors
That doesn't contradict the importance of the factors that they then found.

Market power etc allows them to leverage an initial advantage. It doesn't eliminate the need to establish and maintain that initial advantage.

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
     Microsoft's secret - (ben_tilly) - (6)
         For one thing, these Harvard turkeys never - (a6l6e6x)
         These gentlemen describe one factor . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
             Right - (ben_tilly)
         Re: Harvard myopia - (dmarker)
         Didn't need to read past this: - (drewk) - (1)
             So they then miss some obvious factors - (ben_tilly)

Ah yes, "Lambicus cetafermentum", otherwise known as the Greater Belgian Whale.
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