Who cares about who invented what? The important thing is that Microsoft
brought the apps and GUI to the user, so MSFT's OS and apps became a de
facto standard. Credit to the guys who invented the first spreadsheet, the
mouse or the GUI, but it remained in the vault for many years, while Bill
and friends brought it to the masses and got a couple of $$$.
It's great to be a hacker or a geek and invent great things, but you have to
speak the customers' language if you want to be successful.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan S. Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: zondag 29 april 2001 19:29
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SaF] Origin of Microsoft DOS
>
>
> On 29 Apr 2001, at 19:06, Victor Firestone wrote:
>
> > LOL, you might be right in regards Microsoft's ability to create
> > technical advances - though I did take the definition for DOS from
> > wepobedia at the following URL -
> >
> > http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/D/DOS.html
>
> LOL...we think alike. In searching for an answer for Sajeev, I first
> went to the webopedia to get a listing of DOS sites. But they did
> not seem to fit the quest here, so then I searched on Google and
> found that page I referenced.
>
> I don't remember who it was, but I remember reading once a rant where
> someone made a great case against so called MS innovations noting
> that their IE browser was based on the same Mosaic software that
> Netscape based itself; MS had little to nothing to do with the
> development of the major protocols that ran the Internet and in point
> of fact, Bill Gates came to embrace the potential of the Internet
> quite late in modern Internet times; they did not originate any of
> the office programs you find in the standard Office Suite, such as
> the word processing and spreadsheet programs found in MS Office and
> even office-suite type programs had been around before MS brought one
> out; and as noted they did not conceive the idea of a DOS OS, nor for
> that matter, multi-tasking or graphical windows desktop software.
> There is nothing innovative about the Windows Desktop Operating
> System. Oh sure, MS has given us plenty of terrific improvements to
> the GUI Desktop, but they cannot be credited for inventing it.
>
> Microsoft's talents lie in exploiting technology by hiring some of
> the best talent in the country; by buying out technology already
> invented (if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em out); and by designing
> copycat type software to compete with the real thing, i.e. Virtual
> Java. It is like that commercial by some company who's name escapes
> me, where they exclaim, "We don't make the products; we just make
> them better."
>
>
> Alan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
