<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>In a world without MS, someone else would have filled the void. Apple wasn't far behind.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">-Dave <br></font></span></div><div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">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</div><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Mike Dougherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">idk, i feel like Microsoft deserves at least some respect for directly and indirectly contributing to the world we mostly take for granted today.
<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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.<br><br></div><div>In a world without MS, someone else would have filled the void. Apple wasn't far behind.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-Dave <br></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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