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I keep thinking about this - how microsoft's culture has led to its continual survival. They respond quickly to the market and ship features.

The products work for people, but nobody loves the products, they tolerate them.

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Windows 95 and 7 may be exceptions. I recall both being refreshing and met with enthusiastism and praise. Early versions of Microsoft Office as well were (at least at one time) considered a step up.

Corel shit the bed with WordPerfect 5 or 6. Non stop crashes. All word had to do to kill WordPerfect was not lose your work

Windows 95 was revolutionary over Win 3.11, but it also crashed _a lot_ and began the habit of reinstalling Windows as a general fix.

Win 7 was stable and user-friendly, as was Win2k years earlier -- but for some reason, MSFT directed consumers to ME and Vista, which were garbage.

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