Bill Gates Plots a Windows Future... - Page 3

whitesaint · #17 February 25th, 2005, 10:47 AM

Wow I really hope the entire world is watching and finally really taking notice to how much Microsoft is constantly stealing Apple's ideas. I mean yea it may make business sense but it is ethically and spiritually wrong.

I mean I don't know why, but for me this is what turns me off about Microsoft products, that and their inferior quality, they constantly are taking ideas and claiming they are their own, and they eventually end up owning a large percentage of tha market. I dunno...but this is what really makes me love Apple and how they are always the first to invent new stuff. And it's always the coolest stuff. I hope Microsoft dies and burns in hell.

aicul · #18 February 28th, 2005, 02:53 AM

I do agree with whitesaint in spirit but I am not sure Apple really invented everything. Take the desktop, though that was a Xerox research from melmo park.

Nevertheless, it is most dazzling to see PC fans blindly believe what B.Gate$ has to tell them.

Comming back to the thread title, my 2 cents advice to B.Gate$ is:

1. Make virtual PC for OSX really work smoothly
2. distribute windows for the PC as freeware
3. pray that 1 and 2 above convince PC software developpers not to switch to OSX

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karavite · #19 March 4th, 2005, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ziess

"The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device"[/I]

Well, in some ways that vision is here today. You see my company has some automated software for our PC maintenence and it has handled the latest 13 Windows security patches pretty well - I only had to reboot 13 extra times in the past few weeks. Ah, to live in this golden age...

Pengu · #20 March 4th, 2005, 11:49 PM

i think the idea of "windows" was Xerox, not the "desktop"

Aeronyth · #21 March 5th, 2005, 03:02 AM

It was just the GUI in general. I'm pretty sure Xerox's system had a desktop. Both Apple and Microsoft "stole" this idea.

MisterMe · #22 March 5th, 2005, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Pengu

i think the idea of "windows" was Xerox, not the "desktop"

Many of these ideas predate Xerox PARC. The concept of windows is distinct from the concept of the GUI. Rather than regurgitate misinformation, people would do well to do a little research into the history of Xerox PARC, Smalltalk, the Lisa, the Macintosh, MS Windows, and the individuals who worked developed the ideas and worked on these projects.