Re: Micro$oft ba$tards at it again

After takin' a swig o' grog, sk8r-365 belched out this bit o' wisdom:

Joshua David Williams said:

Ironically, nearly none (if not none) of these "intellectual properties"
were actually conjured by Microsoft. For instance, the first Start menu was
actually developed by Berkeley Softworks (See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/GEOS)

Boy does the *ever* look familiar !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BBENS412.png

Did Msoft _ever_ do *any* original?

This is even better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%288-bit_operating_system%29

A fully windowed system on the Commodore 64.

A few months earlier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Windows1.0.png

Note that it supported only tiled windows (except for the dialog boxes).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_st

The screen shot is misleading, too simple. Full support for overlapping
Windows.

And the true kicker, probably the best of the circa 1985 lot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

(Disclaimer: I owned an Atart ST, not the Amiga).

I remember thinking, at a computer demo from an IBM enthusiast, what
crap Windows was compared to the ST.

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The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall.
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