Verily I say unto thee, that Phil Da Lick! spake thusly:
> DFS wrote:
>> Among their more well-known tech inventions are: operating systems:
>> Windows 3x
Copied (with partial permission) from the Apple Lisa.
>> 9x
Copied from the Apple Mac.
>> NT
Written by VMS engineers.
>> 2000/2003
Combination of the above two.
>> Vista
Copied from Mac OS X.
>> database: ODBC
Written by Simba Technologies, then assimilated.
>> office: first bundled/integrated office apps
Except for AppleWorks, 6 years earlier.
>> programming/development: Visual Basic/VBA
Written by Alan Cooper, then assimilated.
>> ActiveX/COM
Finally something the Vole actually "invented", although given that it's
probably responsible for more security issues than any other software in
history, it's hardly something worth bragging about.
>> C#
Microsoft's answer to being sued for illegally "extending" Java.
>> Visual Studio
Not the first, but perhaps one of the worst IDEs ever.
>> PowerShell
LOL! I won't even dignify that with a response.
>> multimedia: Media Center
Er ... HELLO! *Tivo*, four years earlier.
Maybe we're not clear on this, but we are supposed to be discussing
*inventions*, right? You do know what *invention* means, don't you
DooFuS? Or are you working from Sweaty's phrase book again?
>> Media Player
QuickTime came first, by at least a year.
>> Gaming: DirectX
Iris GL (subsequently OpenGL) came first, by at least 3 years.
>> Gaming consoles: XBox
That's not an invention. Game consoles have been around since 1972.
>> XBox360
Ditto, but with 60% more FAIL. At least the original didn't RRoD and
scratch discs.
>> web: contributions to XML and SOAP
Microsoft's "contributions to the Web" are infamous, and again - hardly
something worth bragging about. Neither of the above were Microsoft
inventions.
>> other: ClearType font technology
Invented by Apple, *22 years earlier*.
http://www.grc.com/ctwho.htm
And the final score is... 1/21 = FAIL.
Better luck next time, DooFuS.
>> Your problem - the OSS world's problem - is sour grapes, laziness
>> and jealousy
Your problem - Microsoft's problem - is that you're a bunch of bloody
plagiarists; vultures and revisionists, with zero morals and even less
imagination or talent.
>> without a commercial product to steal from
Hypocrite.
>> the OSS world has almost nothing to offer.
It has the same to offer as Windows, only with less bloat; better
security; fewer serious bugs; and much much more Freedom.
> Every single one of these is their take on an earlier version
It's worse than that. A lot of the above Microsoft "products" were
merely assimilated at best, and plagiarised at worst, if not outright
stolen.
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