In article <who-EBAD85.07522922012003@news.xtra.co.nz>,
whoisthis <who@is.this> wrote:
In article <v2r36d113fhf71@corp.supernews.com>,
"wildstar128" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
Despite, Billy's method - M$ has had a fundamental role that put GUI into
desktop PCs among other legendary systems such as Apple Lisa/Mac,
Commodore's Amiga series, Atari's ST series, Berkeley Softworks GEOS and
other names. We may hate M$ but they had their role even when M$ wants to
take all the credit.
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.
Moneymaking and marketing!
Name one other single company who've managed to have their OS
delivered by default in computers by several vendors sold to the mass
market....
Interestingly, some 25 years ago, IBM was the "Big Bad Company".
Now, Microsoft has taken over that role, and people don't mind at all
buying a harddisk manufactured by IBM.....