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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (7062)	5/13/1998 7:35:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Ramsey, MSFT wrote Win95, which included full backward compatibility with DOS applications -- and I still use text-based DOS programs to earn my living with. This was no mean feat to write Win95. You can say that MSFT didn't think up the idea of clickable icons, but who cares -- I've never heard anyone give any credit to who actually did conceptualize it -- that is, the names of the people at Xerox PARC. OS/2 was a good effort, but just didn't fly for whatever reason. Besides MSFT and IBM, nobody else made a serious effort to write a GUI for the DOS world. There were a couple no-name companies that wrote very weak home-screens for the DOS world, but weak doesn't make a good product. MSFT undertook a serious effort to make the lives of IBM-compatible users more enjoyable, and people love what MSFT has done for them.