Bizarre Windows promo video unleashed
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| According to the actors, W-W-W-Windows/386's main selling point
| is that it looks "just like OS/2", and it can even allow multitasking.
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| It's easy to see how far we have come in twenty years of hardware
| upgrades: Vista's main selling point, after all, is that it looks
| just like OS/X and can it take advantage of multicore processors
| to allow multitasking.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37252
Copying, as usual.
Related:
NT influenced by Unix
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| (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design.
| In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the
| design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And
| that's no accident."
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html
The Redmond Copying Machine?
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| "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
| creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
| software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
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