Re: OT - the fun and games of "upgrading" (computerwise)
- From: "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 06:03:51 -0400
charlieb wrote:
Robatoy wrote:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o290/Robatoy/Macbookceomicrosoft.jpg
Suspicion confirmed.
It's ironic that MicroSoft's first Killer App WAS NOT it's operating
system - but rather Excel, running on a Mac and exploiting the
Apple GUI which MS then tried to copy with WinDoze, failed, kept
trying and is STILL trying to copy. At the moment they've gotten
all the way up to approximate Mac's OS 7 level (Apple is currently
up to Mac OS 10.5.2).
What's ironic is that Microsoft writes their own OS, while Apple tacks
a proprietary GUI on top of freeware. And probably doesn't donate a
cent to FSF or BSD or any of the others who actually did most of their
development for them.
As for Excel being Microsoft's first "killer app", actually that was
BASIC, without which the Apple II would have flopped miserably.
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