Where else would MS get ideas for new features?

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by tuberculosis

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6/5/05 10:59:13 AM

8/21/07 6:05:07 AM

Where else would MS get ideas for new features?

Most advances on the PC platform are pioneered by Apple. They don't necessarily invent the stuff - but they definitely get it popularized and adopted sooner. For one example - wireless networking. Yes you could get it from Lucent - but virtually nobody knew about 802.11b until Jobs demo'd the Airport in a MacWorld keynote.

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

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Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:07 AM EDT

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Intel Apples? - (andread) - (29) - May 23, 2005, 05:51:53 PM EDT

doubtful - (SpiceWare) - (1) - May 23, 2005, 06:06:42 PM EDT

I agree - (folkert) - May 23, 2005, 10:47:19 PM EDT

Cnet says announcement expected Monday 6/6/2005. - (Another Scott) - (20) - June 4, 2005, 12:08:52 PM EDT

Re: "write Intel software". - (a6l6e6x) - (13) - June 4, 2005, 01:18:06 PM EDT

Good and bad - (admin) - June 4, 2005, 01:23:57 PM EDT

Apple aren't a software company, though. - (pwhysall) - (6) - June 4, 2005, 01:34:26 PM EDT

Yeah, we wouldn't want it to become popular or something. -NT - (folkert) - (5) - June 4, 2005, 10:43:07 PM EDT

Selling desktop OSes for PCs is not a business model... - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 5, 2005, 02:54:42 AM EDT

Then... umm - (folkert) - (2) - June 5, 2005, 08:35:58 AM EDT

Antitrust, I expect. -NT - (pwhysall) - June 5, 2005, 09:53:37 AM EDT

Where else would MS get ideas for new features? - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:07 AM EDT

I agree - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:06:22 AM EDT

True, but let me elaborate. - (Another Scott) - (4) - June 4, 2005, 02:00:34 PM EDT

Apple running Intel on their new tablet computer - (Meerkat) - June 4, 2005, 10:24:27 PM EDT

Andrew Orlowski on the Osborne Effect. - (Another Scott) - June 8, 2005, 01:03:02 PM EDT

The Osborne Effect didn't kill Osborne Computer. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 20, 2005, 06:18:03 PM EDT

Reading that reminds me of IMSAI. - (static) - June 20, 2005, 09:40:41 PM EDT

NY Times has the story now, with more details. - (Another Scott) - (5) - June 5, 2005, 08:47:50 PM EDT

Why do they write for it now? - (altmann) - (4) - June 5, 2005, 09:47:55 PM EDT

Various reasons. - (Another Scott) - (3) - June 5, 2005, 11:00:54 PM EDT

Galaxy not the same thing - (altmann) - (2) - June 5, 2005, 11:47:44 PM EDT

One more thing - (altmann) - (1) - June 6, 2005, 04:27:28 AM EDT

Thanks. - (Another Scott) - June 6, 2005, 09:48:15 AM EDT

Intel PowerPC CPUs? - (altmann) - (3) - June 5, 2005, 03:55:23 AM EDT

Entirely more feasible than the alternatives. imho -NT - (pwhysall) - June 5, 2005, 06:42:47 AM EDT

makes more sense than Mac on x86 - (cforde) - (1) - June 6, 2005, 12:56:38 AM EDT

There is a good reason. - (folkert) - June 6, 2005, 07:01:28 AM EDT

Interesting theory on why Apple is switching - (bluke) - June 6, 2005, 05:57:52 AM EDT

It's true. They're switching to x86 (new thread) - (altmann) - June 6, 2005, 01:55:43 PM EDT

We do, after all, survive every moment... except the last.
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