...and one could hypothesize that, given a different outcome, we would be
complianing about Apple today. The possibilities and liklihoods
notwithstanding, Microsoft undertakes shady and illegal activities to
compensate for a so-so operating system. Truth be known, I get along with
NT. I prefer UNIX for back end stuff. Nothing new there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Baird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: MS Breakup
>
>
> Yeah but what really bugs me about threads like these
> denigrating MS is that
> apple stole the original gui idea from Xerox. Somehow the MS haters
> conveniently forget this.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:59 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: MS Breakup
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > VERY well said. I could not have said it better myself. One
> > note: is that if Apple
> > would not have been so closed they might have had a much larger
> > market share.
> >
> > S
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> > <snip>
> > >
> > >Jon, I'm sorry to say, but we do owe Microsoft a few
> (positive) things:
> > >
> > >The machine on your desk wouldn't exist if not for the
> foundations built
> > >on MS-DOS. Sure, I know, you run Linux now... but the
> machine is based
> > >on commodity parts that were produced to run an OS
> championed by IBM for
> > >he business world. Intel designed those parts, but if Microsoft
> > hadn't had
> > >an OS to run the system on, in all likelihood, the use
> "critical mass"
> > >required
> > >to lower the prices down to the current levels, and raise
> the performance
> > >to these current levels, would not have existed. I'm not
> saying Gates
> > >invented DOS (he didn't); I'm not saying that he invented
> the killer
> > >app(again,
> > >he didn't. Visicalc did); I'm not saying he invented the
> PC(IBM, Intel,
> > >etc.).
> > >But his company was critical in those early stages. Without
> > him, we might
> > >be
> > >using TR-DOS, CP/M, or some other legacy OS as the
> "mainstream" OS, and
> > >saturation
> > >would be a lot less.
> > >
> > >Just to let you know, though, Microsoft wasn't always the world
> > conquering,
> > >arrogant company they became. I once bought a copy of Microsoft
> > Multiplan
> > >for the TI 99/4A back in 1983, worked great, was widely
> supported on many
> > >non MS platforms, etc. I was still using it regularly
> until 1990, when I
> > >got
> > >a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 to replace it.
> > >
> > >They once cared about other OSes. They simply got too big.
> > >
> > >Bill Ward
> > >
> > >
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