On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Pablo Roufogalis L. wrote:
When I got my first Mac, the first Fat Mac that reached Venezuela in
December of 1984 (right?), I was baffled at the lack of excitement the
mouse and the font capabilities (to mention just two) caused in my
C:\colleagues.
When The Switcher came out, I was once again amazed by the "I see"
attitude of my colleagues.
When Excel was introduced, and my printouts looked great and theirs
were crappy, it raised some interest, but then they would say "it is
not compatible".
What angered me more at the time is when MS copied all that for
Windows (with Apple's blessing) and they would all go gaga over those
features.
(snip).
I don't think it was with Apple's blessing. I remember a lawsuit by
Apple to prevent Microsoft from copying its OS and calling it Windows.
Windows came into being when Apple lost the lawsuit. Do I not remember
correctly?
Anyway, if people can soon run either OS-X or Windows on the same
Apple/Intel box, how far away can a merger be between MS and Apple and
their operating systems? We've been looking back ten and twenty years;
now look forward (a bit harder). Will some of us old-timers bore the
young ones someday with our reminiscing about when there were two
separate operating systems, one of them called the "Mac" developed by a
tiny, nearly-forgotten company called Apple?
After all, how many times have you heard it said that Steve Jobs finds
Apple a mere diversion from his main interest, the Pixar Animation
Studios. Apple has such a tiny percentage of the total computer market
that the government antitrust laws may find no objection to a merger
with Microsoft. Jobs will just take the money and run (back to Pixar)
and we'll all be running WinMac or Macdows or something, and
eventually forget that they were ever separate OS's.
Tom
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