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Post #226,569

by tuberculosis

9/26/05 3:17:56 PM

You need to remember

Excel and Word shipped first on the Mac and they were a couple of the best apps on the Mac at the time. Windows was born of Gates' frustration with Apple's low marketshare and refusal to license the OS externally. He wanted a more widely available platform on which to sell his warez.

It was never about building a great OS, it is about providing a compatibility layer for Word and Excel.

The original Word and Excel apps on the Mac really were great apps in a lot of ways (although they had an annoying habit of bypassing the Mac Toolbox to do things which resulted in compatibility problems for lots of people).

"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

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush

Interview WTFs - (pwhysall) - (48) - Sept. 18, 2005, 03:45:23 AM EDT

My very first interview - (imqwerky) - Sept. 18, 2005, 09:26:05 PM EDT

Mozilla Localization Project? -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Sept. 19, 2005, 12:14:08 AM EDT

It's a K5ism. Mindless Link Propagation. -NT - (pwhysall) - Sept. 19, 2005, 01:35:19 AM EDT

'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest' lives___if that's 'alive' - (Ashton) - (44) - Sept. 22, 2005, 06:40:22 AM EDT

Consider the other side for a bit - (broomberg) - (41) - Sept. 22, 2005, 08:07:45 AM EDT

A pretty comprehensive description of, - (Ashton) - (40) - Sept. 22, 2005, 07:26:53 PM EDT

I think Barry's perspective is not entirely typical of IT - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 22, 2005, 07:53:18 PM EDT

I recently was able to hire someone... - (folkert) - Sept. 23, 2005, 10:39:21 AM EDT

Can't do it your way - (broomberg) - (37) - Sept. 23, 2005, 12:11:27 AM EDT

Seconded - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 23, 2005, 12:43:43 AM EDT

I get All that, and - - (Ashton) - Sept. 23, 2005, 01:35:00 AM EDT

That may be most important, IMO - (imric) - (34) - Sept. 23, 2005, 07:09:58 AM EDT

Sounds like time for a "team building" retreat - (imqwerky) - (33) - Sept. 23, 2005, 08:12:08 AM EDT

You'd think so... - (imric) - Sept. 23, 2005, 09:39:53 AM EDT

I disagree strongly - (ben_tilly) - (31) - Sept. 23, 2005, 03:53:52 PM EDT

Gee! - (jb4) - (30) - Sept. 23, 2005, 06:03:00 PM EDT

It doesn't - (ben_tilly) - (29) - Sept. 23, 2005, 07:22:16 PM EDT

Expand? - (Ashton) - (5) - Sept. 23, 2005, 09:25:16 PM EDT

Kerberos was easy - (drewk) - Sept. 23, 2005, 10:02:23 PM EDT

Put it this way - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 24, 2005, 01:10:59 AM EDT

OK I can appreciate certain aspects; always with reservation - (Ashton) - Sept. 24, 2005, 06:55:57 AM EDT

Better because of dirty tricks - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Sept. 26, 2005, 12:34:34 PM EDT

You need to remember - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 26, 2005, 03:17:56 PM EDT

Not since 1986 they havent! - (jb4) - (22) - Sept. 26, 2005, 11:20:58 AM EDT

You're judging them wrong - (drewk) - (10) - Sept. 26, 2005, 11:30:10 AM EDT

Amen. - (inthane-chan) - (3) - Sept. 26, 2005, 01:01:58 PM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 26, 2005, 01:09:54 PM EDT

Re: Amen. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Sept. 30, 2005, 07:25:38 AM EDT

He was an employee. I never was. -NT - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 30, 2005, 10:54:08 AM EDT

Point taken! ;-) - (jb4) - (5) - Sept. 26, 2005, 03:00:49 PM EDT

Get BillG laid, that's what. -NT - (inthane-chan) - (4) - Sept. 26, 2005, 03:09:45 PM EDT

Maybe they should have written Microsoft Babe - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Sept. 26, 2005, 03:14:09 PM EDT

Um, Inthane is right. And it worked. - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 26, 2005, 05:27:13 PM EDT

Ohhhhhhhhhh. - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 26, 2005, 05:31:45 PM EDT

So lemme get this straight... - (jb4) - Sept. 27, 2005, 06:10:41 PM EDT

nt 3.5.1 dam fine OS, NT4 is where they screwed the pooch - (boxley) - (10) - Sept. 26, 2005, 07:03:20 PM EDT

Beg to differ! - (jb4) - Sept. 27, 2005, 06:15:31 PM EDT

Wasn't that the last NT to pass the Orange book (whatever) - (Ashton) - (8) - Sept. 27, 2005, 06:39:57 PM EDT

Not by my recollection - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 27, 2005, 06:57:58 PM EDT

Ah so - it remains ephemeral er, 'inferential'. -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 27, 2005, 07:18:34 PM EDT

On only certain hardware. - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 28, 2005, 02:57:48 PM EDT

Right -NT - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 28, 2005, 05:00:44 PM EDT

Honcho == Dave Cutler (ex of DEC) - (jb4) - (3) - Sept. 28, 2005, 06:15:14 PM EDT

Sounds like how Disney does business... -NT - (static) - (2) - Oct. 7, 2005, 12:10:25 AM EDT

My theory, like the 'single electron' one - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 7, 2005, 02:50:14 AM EDT

The Heisenberg Talented Engineer theory... -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 17, 2005, 05:22:07 PM EDT

It's a WTF, all right. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Sept. 23, 2005, 11:22:57 AM EDT

{snorfle} - and a perfect illustration that - - (Ashton) - Sept. 23, 2005, 03:04:26 PM EDT

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