[ExI] Microsoft, was: tabby's star again

[William Flynn Wallace]

In a world without MS, someone else would have filled the void. Apple
wasn't far behind.

-Dave
​I think Apple was ahead on usability by nongeeks and maybe still is.  But
MS had the marketing geniuses before Apple got theirs.  bill w​


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> idk, i feel like Microsoft deserves at least some respect for directly and
>> indirectly contributing to the world we mostly take for granted today.
>>
>
> Microsoft was in it for the money and was hugely successful at that, and
> they had a few innovations along the way, but most people in computer
> science and IT think they squandered many opportunities to really improve
> desktop computing.
>
> In a world without MS, someone else would have filled the void. Apple
> wasn't far behind.
>
> -Dave
>
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