Robert Lewko wrote: > Thank you for that acknowledgement. > > I would like to add that what also added to M$'s success was the > incredibly inept marketing of others and the stupid UNIX wars of the mid > 80's and early 90's. If Apple, Xerox and IBM had not been so steeped in > the paradigm of the era (mainframes) and could have seen the > consequences of hardware becoming cheaper by the day almost (commonly > known as Moore's Law) then they may have been able to make something > come of the technologies that they had in the 1980 period.
Say what you will about MS, they are one of the few big tech companies to have not made a fatal mistake. At least not yet. Anyone remember the Wordstar wars? You know two competing products from the same company that even had similar names. Anyone remember Borlund? <snip> > All the stuff about BG being some technological whiz and a visionary is > bullshit!!! Actually BG was a talented programmer back in the day. He may not be an industry prophet, and he may not play by the rules, but at least get the history straight.
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