Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

wildstar128 wrote:

>"whoisthis" <who@is.this> wrote in message
>who-EBAD85.07522922012003@news.xtra.co.nz">news:who-EBAD85.07522922012003@news.xtra.co.nz...
>> What did M$ do...simply copy someone elses ideas.They had no fundamental
>> role in anything.
>>
>> Here's one for you though, please tell me anything that M$ has inovated.
>
>M$ role wasn't fundamental in innovation or technology but in marketing.

And in business skills.

A fundamental example is their insistence on giving IBM a NON-exclusive
license to PCDOS, so that they could market MSDOS and enable a clone
market running a stable of compatible software.

-michael

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