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Windows and the man behind it get embarased!
Anheg:
Brown-nosing on a forum isnt getting you anything from Microsoft.
+ IM not sure how that video is funny or worth the 1 minute it took to watch it.
Throbblefoot:
--- Quote ---Anyways Bill puted the basics for the computer Linux and all the other operating systems just designed a operating system that's more stable, trust me if Windows wasn't invented neither would Linux be. [snapback]30215[/snapback]
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You are so horribly horribly wrong here.
1. Linux is more like Unix than like Windows, and was based on something called Minix that was first published in 1987. Minix itself is very similar to Unix.
2. Unix was first developed in the 1960s, predating Windows (circa 1985) by two decades.
3. The only connection between Linux and Windows is that they run on the same chip set. Whoopee. Linux *also* runs on other chips sets.
There is no questioning the fact that Microsoft has had a huge impact on the way companies do business, and Bill Gates is more successful than anyone posting on this forum will *ever* be. But that doesn't make Bill Gates the inventor all things computer or make Windows the Mother of all OSes.
-Throbblefoot
Mo:
--- Quote ---software thats compatibile with any piece of software, with any piece of hardware hes got.
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Good post. However the above quote is wrong. It is up to the software engineers to make software and drivers compatible with Windows. They do so because Windows is what the vast vast majority of computers run.
The vast vast majority of computers run Windows, because Microsoft is the only company on Earth who knows how to market an operating system to the masses. Right now it's way too late for another company to attempt to compete with MS in the OS industry. Apple, only now has a slight chance to take some market share from MS since moving to an Intel based platform. Mac OS now has the possibility to be installed on any x86 based machine, which is the same market MS currently dominates. Now people just need a good reason to install Mac OS over Windows that over-shadows the reason not to. That is the fact that Mac OS runs 1% the software that Windows runs.
Mercy:
Check your stuff Cannixxx, I was watching the news the other night and Bill was on and they were talking about him selling microsoft.
Oh and by the way, I have no problem with Microsoft. My XP has never bluescreened or crashed once.
Mo:
--- Quote ---Check your stuff Cannixxx, I was watching the news the other night and Bill was on and they were talking about him selling microsoft.
Oh and by the way, I have no problem with Microsoft. My XP has never bluescreened or crashed once.
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He's retiring from Microsoft in 2008
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