On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:40, Robert MacLean wrote:
> heres my personal stand on M$.
> If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the
> OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :)
> then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have a 2
> bit OS and they charge too much for there products. M$ comes out with
> some of the best ideas in GUI's and ways of doing things.
The Windos interface pre-Win95 was a cross between that of the Mac and one
developed at the Xerox PARC Institute. WinXP's "Luna" interface is a poor
rip-off of Apple's "Aqua". People attribute far too much to Microsoft, often
since they haven't used the environments that originated these designs.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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