OK, here's MSFT's own definition of "innovate", from Bookshelf:
innovate
innovate (Œn'e-vƒt') verb
innovated, innovating, innovates verb, transitive
To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time.
verb, intransitive
To begin or introduce something new.
[French innover, from Old French, from Latin innovƒre, innovƒt-, to renew : in-, intensive pref.. See IN-2 + novƒre, to make new (from novus, new).]
- in'nova'tor noun
- in'novato'ry (-ve-t“r'ˆ, -tor'ˆ) adjective
The American Heritager Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright c 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.
So, what has MSFT done that is *new*? My understanding that VBA supports crash-proofedness in the same way as Java via lack of pointers and adding garbage collection. Nothing new here.
>>> Let us not forget "PC Windowing Apple" - this is not true, for they got the idea from
someone else, but look at where Apple is any way. They failed to commoditize their
product, hence had market share snatched away.
So you're saying that MSFT commoditized the PC? I don't think so. This was out of their hands. Had it been up to IBM, this would never have happened. MSFT has Compaq, Chips and Technologies, and other companies that created the PC clone market to thank for this. MSFT made their way on the coattails of IBM, and not due to any superior technology, marketing, commoditization, or anything else that they did. The only thing I give them any credit for is realizing that they did not need IBM and could go their own way. But this was not really such a brilliant sort of realization anyways. |
