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A hushed public awaits: and, in the pages of Time magazine, Bill Gates puts THE CASE FOR MICROSOFT. But years of conviction play with a man's recollection. Every every one of Bill's arguments points to the company's guiltiest moments. With a split Microsoft, he begins, a future MS "tablet PC" with handwriting recognition would not exist, because Microsoft's OS and App developers need "real-time collaboration" to pull it off. But MS had designs on a "tablet PC" before: when they wrote Pen Windows, a piece of FUDware designed to kill Jerry Kaplan's GO. Back then, Microsoft bristled at any suggestion that their OS and App departments colluded. Now the party line is that it's vital for the consumer.
In 1991, Gates goes on to explain, MS Office developers invented the toolbar. "Had toolbars been created elsewhere, they no doubt would have been patented and never incorporated into Windows [as the taskbar]". How very true: except toolbars were invented elsewhere. In MacPaint. In 1984. At that point, Gates entered into a secret agreement with Apple to use Mac-ish features in the Windows OS, in return for developing apps for the Mac (no monopoly here: yet). Moving to modern day concerns: Bill says that the DOJ scheme would slow down innovation, impeding "Windows updates that could protect against attacks like the Love Bug virus". As opposed to now, when Microsoft denies liability for the jelly-weak security of Outlook?
Gates end with his own horrific vision, post-Microsplit: Apps and OS mini-Bills that could never work together, because the DOJ demands that "no technical information can be discussed that is not 'simultaneously available' to the entire computer industry - which would be a practical impossibility". An impossibility, of course, which open source projects - and hell, most of the rest of the industry - manage every day. Except, that is, when Microsoft sues for publishing MS's proprietary extensions to their work.
And this is the case for?
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time.com
Well, that is where my theory just falls to the ground
headgap.com
Cute pictures of old Mac apps to take bad taste away
microsoft.com
This isn't helping, is it
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