Charles Richmond wrote:
Glen wrote:[snip...] [snip...] [snip...] Funny thing is I am one of the few people who acutally has degrees in both History and Computer Science (come on how many can there be). Yeah well sorry-- I've been use Unix and Linux servers and Linux pcs for a long time. I wasn't aware that one had to know the MS product line to be competent. In fact IHMO the less MS software you use the more likely your stuff is to actually work.Well, certainly one does *not* need to know the Mi$uck product line to be competent...but perhaps one should at least be aware of where Mi$uck *stole* all of its ideas from. For example: MS-DOS from CP/M Windows from Macintosh Excel from Lotus 1-2-3 X-Box from Sega and Sony J++ from Java File compression from Stacker and on...and on...and on...
The funny thing is that A lot of windows products like to rename things that have existed long long before they created their version of them.
Some windows only admins, techs, and programmers only know the MS names for things and not the real names! (The more skilled ones of course do know what stuff is).
I worked at a windows only PC shop for a very short time recently. For example some Windows PC hardware techs will not know what you mean if you refer to the "filesystem". They know "FAT", "FAT32", and "NTFS" but they may not know a filesystem is a general concept that most OS have. One guy was talking about Unix (which he probably has only read about not used) and refered to the unix filesystem as "Unix NTFS"!!
God help him get a clue! Unix predates NT by about two decades. They did not copy NTFS, NTFS copied unix. [NTFS uses the same basic method to access files as the standard unix machine does]
"Embrace and Extend" microsoft called it. They don't want to reinvent the wheel if they dont have to.
The new motto of MS is "two heads are better than one". Which means they are going to outsource all they can to India.
As much as I used to hate "Exbrace and extend" I wish they stuck to that. Glen.