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To: Bob Kim who wrote (165159)	5/15/2002 1:19:02 AM
From: MechanicalMethod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Too many people give Steve Jobs credit for being brilliant but I think he was just lucky.

To: Bob Kim who wrote (165159)	5/15/2002 11:21:57 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Microsoft shows Apple's Steve Jobs the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for the first time Excel was a clone of Wingz, which shipped in 1988. Microsoft didn't allow Wingz access to the windows api that let Excel scroll quickly, and Excel was able to take away Wingz market on PC's due to better user interface speed. But Wingz on Windows was a far more powerful spreadsheet. Microsoft copied the Wingz features over time, and continued to exercise its advantage in access to the windows api, knocking Wingz out of the windows market. But, they were just "exercising their market power", right guys? that's not quite as bad as the outright extortion Intel used to force Asus to ship Athlon motherboards in unlabled boxes, not acknowledging their existence on their web site, or forcing HP to drop the Athlon Omnibooks, after HP had already announced them and posted specs for the systems, but it's in the same abusive, anti-free market, vein.