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Originally posted by ksw
well. after all. i agree on the part abotu microshit, and that. but i do think that it set a standard, for being backwards compitable (atleast a bit) and easy graphical interface.
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For the GUI, this is the most obvious mistake. It's Apple who 'set' the standard previously invented by Xerox. During the 80's the Mac was the reference in GUI. M$ stole just every bit out of MacOS.
In the mean time XWindows appeared and top-of-the-line GUIs popped up on workstations (SGI, Sun etc)
Backwards compatible. Sadly M$ are yet the worst example of backwards compatibility. I know of many 80's unix programs that run fine on today's system. I know very few MS DOS programs that run on WinXP. DIR, maybe..
Let's be realistic. M$ only invented 1 thing. The alchemist formula that transforms sh*t into gold.