Jeffrey
Bye George, 1937-2008
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|  What?
Usually they don't develop products, they buy them?? What? Uhh, don't they develop the most widely used OS and Office productivity suite for the consumer and business market?
I was actually hoping OneCare would be something really good, but I've been waiting to hear from people how it is. Seems like I'll be waiting quite a while before I try it and recommend it to others. |
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matradley
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| said by Jeffrey  :Usually they don't develop products, they buy them?? What? Uhh, don't they develop the most widely used OS and Office productivity suite for the consumer and business market? Yes and no. Bill Gates did 'pay' for the original version of DOS for ~$50 000 and then 'borrowed' Steve Job's interface for Windows 1.x.  |
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AnonProxy
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ß | not this crap again...
Xerox PARC |
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BillRoland
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said by matradley :Yes and no. Bill Gates did 'pay' for the original version of DOS for ~$50 000 and then 'borrowed' Steve Job's interface for Windows 1.x. And DOS is irrelevant because it's dead, and we all know Steve-O borrowed the GUI from Xerox.
Tired old arguments.
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nixen
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said by matradley :said by Jeffrey :Usually they don't develop products, they buy them?? What? Uhh, don't they develop the most widely used OS and Office productivity suite for the consumer and business market? Yes and no. Bill Gates did 'pay' for the original version of DOS for ~$50 000 and then 'borrowed' Steve Job's interface for Windows 1.x. Eesh... I don't think even Jobs would claim that MicroSoft had borrowed anything for Windows 1.x. |
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The Way Out
join:2003-01-20 | reply to Jeffrey
Word and PowerPoint were both from acquisitions. Windows' IP stack is based heavily on BSD's implementation. |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
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| reply to BillRoland
said by BillRoland : And DOS is irrelevant because it's dead, ....... How do you boot from a floppy. I know what is a floppy. |
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