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[News] Windows is Just About Marketing, Not Technical Merits

Windows vs. Unix: the resolution

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| Be it resolved that Microsoft's success is a marketing, not a
| technical, phenomenon.
| 
| [...]
| 
|  The point of step one is to show that Microsoft's dominance isn't
| due to its ability to generate and popularise new technology - and
| the broad strokes on this are pretty clear.
| 
| To see this at the most superficial level, just compare Microsoft's
| primary OS interface products to those from Apple - Vista is just
| the latest and possibly the most blatant example: every Microsoft
| interface "innovation" since Compaq added hard disk support to
| MS-DOS has duplicated something Apple already had. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=822


Related:

The Redmond Copying Machine?

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| My recent video, which tweaked Microsoft for crowing about its
| "innovation" in Windows Vista (without acknowledging its huge debt
| to Mac OS X), triggered plenty of reaction. It probably comes as no
| surprise that your comments quickly devolved into "which is better"
| bickering, which will proably never end.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Then this e-mail message, which arrived today from a guy who says
| he worked as a Microsoft temp employee from 2003 to 2004. I've
| agreed not to publish his name.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "Around the corner was another grid, showing the RealPlayer
| application. This grid was the same: grid A1 was the front userv
| iew of the application, mirroring what was on the iTunes wall/grid.
| 
| "Around the next corner was another grid, this one showing Windows
| Media Player version 9 !! This one was missing a few tiles in the
| grid, but you could actually see the progress as each feature [of
| iTunes and RealPlayer] was copied, square for square.
| 
| "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 


http://www.gridter.com/articles/software_cycle.html


All the Myth about Microsoft!

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|     * Microsoft was first with graphical user interface
| 
|     * Microsoft designed BASIC Language
| 
|     * Microsoft designed visual basic
| 
|     * Microsoft invented DOS
| 
|     * Microsoft designed the first spreadsheet - Excel
|       
|     * Microsoft designed the first word processor
| 
|     * First with Internet browser
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http://196.2.70.231:8080/ict_blog/open-ict-hacks/microsoft-myth


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."
| 
| In light of the recent saber rattling about Linux and patents, the "There 
| are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that 
| environment" sentence is particularly interesting if these patent
| threats include things that are prior Unix art. "In a weak sense, it
| is a form of Unix" is also telling. I said before that I don't think
| that's the case; I think the patent stuff is talking about things like
| Samba and Mono, but even there the "influenced by that environment"
| could be important in the court of public opinion if not in actual
| law.
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html


Microsoft's stolen code and IP infringements

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| Soon, MS-DOS 6.0 was released, including the Microsoft DoubleSpace
| disk compression utility program. Stac successfully sued Microsoft
| for patent infringement regarding the compression algorithm
| used in DoubleSpace...
| 
| F. Scott Deaver, owner of Failsafe Designs, says Microsoft is guilty of
| the "outright theft" of his product name and intellectual property
| (IP)...
| 
| Alacritech sued Microsoft in Federal District Court on August 11,
| 2004, alleging that Microsoft's existing and future operating
| systems containing the "Chimney" TCP offload architecture uses
| Alacritech's proprietary SLIC Technology architecture...
| 
| In April 2001, Intertrust initiated a lawsuit against Microsoft. The
| lawsuit ultimately accused Microsoft of infringing 11 of Intertrust's
| patents and almost 130 of the company's patent claims...
| 
| Visto Corporation has filed a legal action against Microsoft for
| misappropriating Visto's intellectual property... "Microsoft has a
| long and well-documented history of acquiring the technology of
| others, branding it as their own, and entering new markets," said
| Mr. Bogosian...
| 
| Telecoms company AT&T accused Microsoft of infringing its patent for
| a digital speech coder in its Window software in a lawsuit it filed
| in 2000...
| 
| The likelihood of Microsoft having to pay millions of dollars in
| damages for infringing the contested Eolas patent for web browser
| technology increased last week when the US Patent and Trademark
| Office reaffirmed the patent's validity...
| 
| A bitter fight has broken out between Symantec and Microsoft.
| Symantec claims that Microsoft stole code from Veritas software...
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http://www.openaddict.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?1385

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