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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Taro who wrote (544811)	1/19/2010 9:21:38 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

Now, Gates has never been a visionary but has just taken what others have already developed or at least proposed and made a business case out of it. Earlier, I ridiculed CJ for his claim there would never have been commercially available ICs without the government's early applications. But IMO, we would never have seen anything akin to "Windows" had there not been Xerox PARC's or AAPL's early work. I just don't think they'd ever have had the idea. The blatant lack of creativity at MSFT has been present for years. The idea of incorporating the tabset metaphor into Excel was stolen from Borland. It would NEVER have hit them without the success of Quatro Pro. Yet, 15 years later, it took Mozilla to give them the idea for a tabset on a browser. Serial non-creativity. They never learn.