Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Mike Meyer]

Not Bill Gates <nbg at nbg.invalid> writes:

> mwm at mired.org wrote...
>> Not Bill Gates <nbg at nbg.invalid> writes:
>> > steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au wrote...
>> >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:35:47 +0000, Not Bill Gates wrote:
>> >> > Heck, I dunno.  Like you, I don't even really care all that much.  
>> >> You don't care that innovation in desktop software has been crippled by
>> >> the actions of the monopoly player Microsoft?
>> > You need to first prove innovation in desktop software has been 
>> > crippled, don't you?
>> 
>> MS took desktop software through pretty much the same sequence of
>> offerings that the mainframe and minicomputer software industry had
>> been throgh: flat file systems and single-tasking OS's in a command
>> line environment, adding nested file systems, adding TSRs, adding a
>> windowing environment, adding true multitasking and finally
>> multiprocessor systems. This took them what - 20+ years?
>
> <shrug>  Being pissed off about how things could have been done 
> better is a losing proposition.

I'm not pissed off about it - I've got better things to do. You asked
for prove that desktop software development was crippled by MS. I
provided it.

       <mike
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