John T wrote:

"Chris W" wrote in message
... there are
even some examples where they have failed because their marketing
wasn't enough to over come the worthless product they put together
when the competition in this case had a far superior product.

Was that supposed to support your argument?

No, that was just in there as a preemptive strike against those that
might argue that the reason all those other companies went out of
business is because MS has a better produce, they do not. There is the
rare exception where a quality product won out over the bully but I
think it was only because that product had been around for a long time
before MS tried to take them out, and their product had a large and
strong following as well as being of high quality.

MS bought Fox Software because it was a competitor to
Access. For a while, MS put the Access front-end on FoxPro but
in a short time, FoxPro went away. At the time, FoxPro was
far superior to Access. Don't know about it anymore.

MS tried to buy Intuit to get TurboTax but Intuit successfully
fought it off.