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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 510.37+1.4%Nov 14 9:30 AM EST
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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (913)5/13/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
Or laser printers.

Well, who then invented the Laser Printer? Hmmm? It was Apple and you know it. Name a Laser printer that existed before the LaserWriter. Do you think you can just say Apple didn't invent this and get away with it? Geesh.

GUI and mouse developed by XEROX.

Wrong. Some research was done there, but the first GUI OS was apple's. Xerox worked on graphical user interfaces as an idea and a little less than half of the techniques were developed there, but most of the major components (like a desktop, and overlapping windows, and windows you could drag) came from Apple. You could say the idea of a mouse came from Xerox, but the invention of one (or "first use on personal computers" as I said, was due to Apple)

The 3.5" drive was developed by Toshiba I believe.

Boy are you wrong. It was developed and produced by Sony in joint venture with Apple based on an Apple design.

Photo-realistic VR by SGI.

Nope. I haven't seen photorealistic VR from SGI yet. I'm talking about Quicktime VR.

Hypertext definitely not by Apple either

Ha! Hypercard was invented by a guy at Apple, dude. Preceeded both HTML and SGML by many years.

This is all pretty well known stuff.

And, of course, this doesn't change the fact that you haven't come up with a single major technological invention from your beloved Microsoft.

Dragonfly
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