• Home
• Reviews
• News
• Downloads
• CNET TV

About me

My posting summary

1 to 1 of 1

My comments

• Gates did not "revolutionize" anything. He was an aggressive businessman who knew to take advantage of business opportunities by getting DOS from IBM. No, he did not create DOS. No, he neither invent nor create nor innovate Windows. Those of us who worked in this business back when punch cards was still a fad knew that Xerox held rights to GUI technology that Apple got fair and square. Gates later signed deals with Apple and actually took (stole) the code. Then there was the media fiasco when Microsoft tried to steal QuickTime's precursor. That prompted a law suit that lasted for years. Yes, I worked for two start-up's whose GUI ideas were also stolen by Microsoft under Gates. FOr the author of this article to claim that Gates "revolutionize" the desktop shows the complete ignorance and lack of any "journalistic" savvy. Yes, Microsoft has carved out a majority market for itself in today's computing world through questionable and sometimes illegal business practices. It did not innovate, it bought, steal and copied. IBM, HP, INTEL, AMD, APPLE and even SUN are the computing giants who innovated and paved the way. Let's give credit where credit is due. Get your history straight. In reply to: "Gates gets rock star treatment for final CES keynote"

  January 7, 2008

  0 replies