My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

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Proves my point

"I never credited MSFT with the multimedia PC, though
they were one of the contributors."

OK then what contribution. Name one original contribution
from MS.

"...where were you when the MMPC was first speced."

I was at the WWDC in 1991 when Apple previewed
Quicktime. Everyone in the room knew that was a defining
moment. What had MS developed or demonstrated at that
time?

"And what was that great innovation that Jobs and
company came up with? The PC? Oops, they "borrowed"
that one. The GUI -- "borrowed" again. The mouse?
Microkernel OS? Can you hear the chirping????"

Some of Apple's innovations: sponsored the work that
created the mass produced mouse, over lapping windows,
regions, quickdraw, quicktime (file container underpins
MPEG4 multimedia), the Newton, the keyboard and
trackpad layout of the Powerbook, the Macintosh and the
computer that started the PC revolution the Apple II.

I note the windows fanboy mentions the mouse without
knowing the significant contribution Apple made, typical of
the MS fanboys ignorance.

Now one MS innovation...

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 07/01/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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