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[Nuxxy]

Microsoft held back real innovation in the PC space. Long before windows 95, we had AmigaOS which was a 32-bit true multi-tasking OS that did not break everytime you tried to use it for anything interesting. Around the time of Windows 95, we had BeOS. BeOS was a very impressive and performant OS. It could do things with media that Windows still cannot do.

I don't see how you can blame Microsoft for another system's failure. The story of Microsoft is that mediocre product + good marketing > great product + mediocre marketing.

By the way, I am not a Micro$oft fanboy. Many a day I wish they'd go up in flames. But I do respect their achievements. People can bitch as much as they want, but they did what no one else could.

 

[BandwidthAddict]

@Nuxxy

No, the story of Microsoft is to be in the right place at the right time with the right offering. Microsoft did not make Microsoft, IBM made Microsoft. They rode on the tails of "nobody got fired for buying IBM" and the official OS of IBM PC was ..... Microsoft DOS.

P.S. What did Microsoft actually invent or innovate? They are a marketing and legals company.

 

[Tns]

AmigaOS which was a 32-bit true multi-tasking OS that did not break everytime you tried to use it for anything interesting.

Kind of true that, they had impressive graphics way before pc's

Around the time of Windows 95, we had BeOS. BeOS was a very impressive and performant OS. It could do things with media that Windows still cannot do.

and were is it now? guess no one liked it , too difficult to use?

Both AmigaOS and BeOS are streaks ahead of desktop Linux, even today, and if their widget sets were upgraded, would blow Vista out of the water.

and where/are they free? no they not (except linux)

The problem with Windows is that as an OS, it has all flash and very little substance

lots of flash like vista, at least it works and its easy to work with.

A true OS should just work, and should provide real solutions to problems faced by the users.

And how does windows fail here? (it does at times)

Example, instead of anti-virus, we should have sandboxing and auto-threat evaluation.

Are you a OS2 fan perhaps, cause they had something like that.

This has been possible for years but neither Windows nor Linux has bothered.

Why? too difficult too implement or expensive?

True OS innovation has stagnated and with Windows NIH syndrome, you won't be seeing much progress until a new OS arrives to dethrone it.

it kinda have stagnated, the new one after vista will!

 

[Nuxxy]

@Nuxxy

No, the story of Microsoft is to be in the right place at the right time with the right offering. Microsoft did not make Microsoft, IBM made Microsoft. They rode on the tails of "nobody got fired for buying IBM" and the official OS of IBM PC was ..... Microsoft DOS.

P.S. What did Microsoft actually invent or innovate? They are a marketing and legals company.

That was my point. They don't make the best products, but they have proved that you don't need the best products if you have the best marketing. The whole idea of the personal computer is that you take it away from techie guy and hand it to Joe Nobody. They made their success by appealing to (alternatively "duping") the lowest common denominator, in terms of computer users.

So while you can shout and rage and blame Microsoft for any of the many faults with their products, you cannot shout and rage and blame them for the failure of other companies products. Each company is responsible for their own failure.