It doesn't matter what I think the major technical innovations of the past 2 decade are-- that would be what I think is most significant.
I challenge you guys to come up with some major technical innovation that Microsoft has come up with, other than dirty (and clean) marketing tricks. Creating a new application catagory would count-- but I don't think BOB is a major innovation.
I don't think it can be done, I cannot think of any.
Dragonfly
PPS- The reason I'm talking about technical innovations only is that this came out of the "you'd still be starting at a green screen if it wasn't for MS" comment. I think exactly the opposite is true.
PS- Laser Printers, GUI, client-client networking (a'la' network neighborhood), Video on PCs, WYSIWYG, Hypertext applications, Graphical internet access, photographic-quality virtual reality, the mouse, the 3.5 inch drive, CD-ROMs are some of the major innovations of the last 20 years, all of which were developed (or applied to personal computers for the first time) by Apple. |
