Robby,
Point taken. We all get a long with Windoze. That is because we need to. If I could
get most
of the software I need for Linux,Unix. I would only run Windoze for my wife's machine
or when
I was on the road. Windows does not give us anything that special.
Again Gates has nothing more to do with windows then he had some great marketing. He
did not
even write it. At least Mac was done by them..
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On 6/14/2000 at 1:07 PM Tanner, Robby wrote:
>...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
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>> > <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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