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New caption for picture: "I've never heard of this band--system.dll: unknown error--before? In reply to: "Microsoft Surface could be a great jukebox"

August 20, 2008

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Wasn't PlayForSure also a 'great subscroption model'? In reply to: "Zune update adds TV, "social," and software fixes"

May 6, 2008

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Same old same old
I guess we will have more encores of this statement:

"Windows <insert version> is the most secure and dependable
operating system we have ever produced." In reply to: "Ballmer: More marketing of Windows needed"

February 4, 2008

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Pragmatic
...fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me...
January 23, 2008

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connoisseur
"I can't believe anyone buys this crap."

Your comments imply that you are a Windows user, and, therefore,
a connoisseur of crap. In reply to: "'MacHeads' movie seems a realistic look at cult of Mac"

January 23, 2008

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Revising the revisionist
Not quite that simple. Word and Excel appeared on the Mac
several years before they were produced for Windows and DOS.
If one chooses to believe a few years of Mac development didn't
jump start Windows, then I suppose one can, but it seems
unlikely MS GUI development did not benefit tremendously from
writing for the Mac.

Worth reading: www.sitepoint.com/article/real-history-gui.

Apple did make many significant early contributions to the GUI
including redrawing of overlapping windows. Additionally, in
the Xerox interface icons were verbs - they were actions. Apple
used icons a nouns as well (ie, actions could be preformed on
them). The result was the desktop metaphor, which was an
Apple innovation and the reason why GEM was nearly shutdown
by Apple-GEM copied the desktop metaphor.
January 7, 2008

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????
In the your intended context, I think you mean Compaq "opened
the world to technology". After all, they reverse engineered the
IMB PC so that DOS, which was purchased by MS from an
independent Seattle software company, could run on a platform
other than one sold by IBM. By the way, CMP, the OS from which
DOS was derived, ran on hardware from many different
computer makers, including Apple (eg, the Apple ][ ). MS was
hardly the innovator here.

CMP also ran on the IBM PC and was a contender along with DOS
for the OS IBM would eventually use. DOS got the nod (Bill's
mother was acquainted with IBM's CEO at the time the OS
decision was made).
January 7, 2008

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Sorry it is not
"Microsoft has a history of bleeding losses in its games division
including 2005 fiscal year losses of $485 million and 2006 losses of
$1.26 billion. Despite cost reduction attempts, the company still
expects to incur losses in the 2007 fiscal year, this according to the
entertainment and devices division president, Robbie Bach. The
hopefully news, however, is that in fiscal 2008, MS could see some
black ink in its games division for the first time ever."
January 7, 2008

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Crystal Ball
Has Gates proved prescient about anything? Anybody out there
keeping track of his predictions? ...and the Xbox is still bleeding
money, this is a success?
January 7, 2008

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