--- "James R. Sissel" JimSissel@yahoo.com wrote:
I am not a total MS basher, but I hate watching people calling themselves innovators, when mostly what they do is copy other people's innovations (badly).
I'm not a total MS basher either. I've used MS stuff since the Radio Shack Color Computer then to an IBM compatible using every version of MS stuff since DOS 3.2.
I remember all the new features in each new version of MSDOS, starting with 3.2 as well. I also remember the folks on UseNet News technology groups pointing out that all of Microsoft's new MSDOS features were "borrowed" from UNIX. I definitely remember thinking "why can't I just use UNIX on this PC?"
It was only later on that I discovered that the PC version of UNIX, Xenix, was also owned by Microsoft.
And it's fair to say when Microsoft finally comes out with something good and/or innovative I'll be sure to give them credit.
Didn't they come out with a particularly innovative joystick about ten years ago?
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