Only those close insiders know how Steve and Bill actually get along - perhaps now as friendly competitors. After all, Microsoft didn't crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. Or perhaps those companies crumbled from the sheer lack of user support. Perhaps, Apple remained in business because they were early on the scene with a quality product and had the largest user base under MS. I have found it hard to believe that the Longhorn/Vista fiasco was not planned - how could such a large corporation make such a blunder? Was Bill preoccupied with other things? Was it just too great of a task to come up with an OS X like OS that would work on all possible configurations of PC hardware? Did Apple beat MS to the punch with OS X and then MS rushed out a buggy, unfinished product to keep users from switching? Would MS intentionally blunder with Vista to give Apple a minuscule rise in user base and and to prepare their users for the new hardware and mindset required for their "next generation" OS called "Windows 7?" Will it run on any computer - PC or Apple? Will an Apple OS ever run on any computer hardware configuration or will they continue forcing users to buy their often inferior hardware? Why has almost every new Windows release required the purchase of new hardware of some kind - keeps a lot of companies in business? Who knows - wherever computer hardware and software is designed, developed and manufactured, in the valley, in the Bay area and in Redmond - some of them know. I'd love to read a tell-all book from a long-term insider on the history of the development of the personal computer and PC operating systems - who will be the first to write one? And, will they give us the whole story? With the passing of Michael Crichton, we've lost a novelist who could have written a stunning expose of the computer industry and someone who could have gained access to all the players.
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