Randy said:
(e-mail address removed) said the following on 4/1/2006 10:58 AM:
Now that is plain ludicrous. Unless the "standards" you are referring to
are/were his own personal standards.
Not really. DOS (mostly acquired, not created from scratch) was made
to conform to IBM's PC hardware standard, cpu, bus protocol etc.
Jobs and Wozniak did invent their own hardware protocol, asynchronous
bus, 68000 cpu, interrrupt vector handling and OS (from scratch), i.e.
innovatiion. Gates and innovation have rarely, if ever, occupied the
same room. Microsoft Word is the sole, built from the ground up,
groundbreaking application that MS has produced. Maybe Vista will be
the second. Your guess is as good as mine.
If they lost, why does Gates own part of that "loser company"?
Where have you been? Gate's monetary contributions to Apple has been
widely acknowledged as a "down boy" payoff to settle Apple's copyright
suit. And if he received stock in return (this is news to me) then I
certainly hope it's not a controlling interest because, aside from
Word, Microsoft's gifts to Apple have been trojan horses, purposely
crippled and lacking features found on Windows.
Why? If a corporation wants to shoot themselves in the foot then let
them. Hell, load the gun for them.
I wouldn't work for a company unless I admired their software. And I
do admire my company's software. I just wish they would move away from
MS centric development. I don't want to get labeled as a dangerous Mac
fanatic LAMP head though so I pick my battles.
And that is why 99% of Windows users use IE as the default browser. It's
free, it was there, they had no reason to go download another.
Absolutely true. I've been working with three just-out-of-college
teachers on a non-profit site (
www.ghanawisdom.org). I told them they
had to test their pages on Firefox and all three of them said "What's
Firefox?". They know now.
<sarcasm>
Oh? My copy handles XHMTL so close to the W3C standards that I thought I
was using Mozilla for a moment
</sarcasm>
Well okay, maybe not that close. The engineers state they are moving
closer anyway. My copy has a gigantic resource or memory hole in it.
MS does sometimes make gigantic changes between beta and fc though.
Bob Gulian