<What in the world are you talking about here? Which competition? The Amiga folks didn't understand graphical computing? Ever hear of Sun? Evans & sutherland? Xerox? Macintosh? Ever hear of Andrew and M3? X-windows?>
No, they didn't!! Where are they now?
At the risk of hectoring you, Reg, I will just point out that this stuff was invented at Xerox and perfected at Apple and in many other systems. You think Apple didn't understand the advantage of GUI? That's all their marketing was about in the 1980s. That's why people bought the systems.
However, people continued to buy DOS because big companies bought IBM (often, with IBM buying up considerable of their shares to get an armlock on the situation.) An arrangement on which Microsoft got a free ride. And without the many years of easy DOS income, Microsoft would never have survived the many years of mistakes it made in understanding and implementing GUIs (and bad compilers, and their now-defunct hardware products, and etc.)
MSFT beat allof these companies to the punch in introducing graphically controlled productivity apps to the masses.
Flat out wrong, the opposite of what happened. Amiga and Apple introduced the benefits of cheap GUI productivity apps to the masses in the 1980s, after Xerox invented the technology (which Microsoft finally paid for after all the lawsuits, as I heard it) and sowed the field by promoting the idea in the 1970s.
Since you had not yet been born when all this was being created, and they don't teach it in history class, I can understand a bit of confusion on your part.
But if bundling is the bit of genius you are referring to, then I assure you that also had been invented a long long time before *I* was born.
Chaz |
