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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (102100)4/25/2000 10:45:00 AM
From: Eric Wells  Read Replies (2) of 164684
 
Glenn - I'll add one additional product to my previous list of Microsoft innovations:

Microsoft Windows is innovative.

I realize that probably many are laughing themselves silly as they read this - they will claim that in creating Windows, Microsoft was doing nothing but copying the graphical user interface in the Mac (which was copied from the research at Xerox Park). But Windows was very innovative in one very distinct way - Windows was the first graphical operating system for Intel based PCs. You could say "so what?" But it was the Intel based PC that really resulted in the explosion of computer technology that the world has seen from the late 80s through today. But is adapting a paradigm for a graphical operating system, a form of which already existed on another platform (the Mac) to the Intel chip set a real innovation? In my view, yes. In the late 80's why didn't Apple port the Mac operating system to the PC? I think that had Apple known that PC sales were going to go stratospheric that they would most certainly have ported their operating system to the PC. But in the late 80's, Apple wanted to sell it's own computer - and because Apple wanted to sell both the computer and the operating system, they allowed themselves to miss just an incredible revenue stream (some claim it was Apple's arrogance that allowed them to miss this market).

So was implementation of Windows on the Intel PC innovative? In my view yes. But even those who think that Microsoft's development of Windows for the PC was not innovative, I don't think anyone can deny that the move was very smart - because it led directly to billions of dollars of revenue for Microsoft, and indirectly to many billions of dollars of revenue for other companies - and it really helped to foster the explosion of personal computer use.

Thanks,
-Eric
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