Dos wasn't stolen from IBM, it was bought from some guy and licensed to IBM. Look at Exchange, Look at Internet Explorer. You don't call those market disruptors? Look at Windows 95 and the inclusion of dial up networking and TCP/IP in a reasonably easy system.
IE is huge, the first free graphical browser. Neither of the two Mosiac browsers were free, Netscape wasn't free until 1998. Opera isn't free. Now it has some 80% or more of the browser market. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:53 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: New MacBook Pro 15! > > > Nick wrote: > > iTunes and the iPod weren't > > New to the mass market. They're the defacto standard now and that's > new which means Apple did something to the existing idea or created a > new one to attract customers. > > What are MS's big market disruptors? I can't think of any save for > DOS. It was stolen from IBM, but Gates made something special and a > de facto standard. Everything else has been just copying. > > So from that perspective they had one big product 25 years ago and > have leveraged their market position to place copy-cat applications. > Nothing wrong with that from a biz perspective, just not very fun. > > Nowadays we're in the "creative economy" and in that space they just > don't have many products. Google has out searched them and out > advertised them. Apple is out-designing them. Where's their big > creative products? > > From what Jim said, maybe Office2007 will be. I dunno, haven't seen > it. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230943 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
