-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I came across this article today and thought it was great background for the tech industry as we move forward.
http://roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/4E2A8848-5738-45B1-A659-AD7473899D7D.html It gives a bit of a history lesson regarding MS, and it's "cairo" concpet/product, then relates that to Longhorn/Vista. In the process it describes other vendors and products that were involved at the time (Apple, NExT, etc.) One of the many great quotes there: "Looking back, while it appears Microsoft has shipped regular products, in reality what it has shipped in the last two decades of Windows has been a series of apologetic stopgaps without ever being ready and able to ship what it actually promised to deliver. Those placeholder products were far inferior to what competitors were offering. They were actually far inferior in many cases to products that predated them by many years." Shawn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFhdKx2B6Swl9qN24RAt/9AJ9Z8aOEOxsk/52paNSTVbrda6azLwCgs2Bd SwuBwRCrQrhMU8zdlM1wsgg= =DEPS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
