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.
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> From: Steven Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: MS Breakup
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>
> 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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> >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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