On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:00:39 +0200, Oliver Thieke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what about M$ ? Which innovations do they provide ? Declaring > the web browser as a vital OS' component ? They just get it half-way > right on the third attempt... And what about their innovations ? > > + C#: heavily influenced by SUN's Java > + GUI: invented by PARC Xerox & spread by Apple Mac > + Win NT: based on co-development with IBM (OS/2) > + Office Apps: invented by VisiCalc > + TCP/IP: invented by DARPA & spread by UX > + Web: invented at CERN and NCSA (UIUC), > first denied an neglected by M$... > + User Admin (ADS): clone of Novell's NDS and LDAP > + Authetification: based on Kerberos (ADS) > + SMB/CIFS: original SMB protocol introduced by IBM > + MS SQL: Sybase clone
SQL Server is based on technology originally bought from Sybase. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and many others were bought also. IE is based on NCSA Mosaic. More can be found at http://www.taikahn.com/mssucks.html -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama] "Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows." -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2001-07-12
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