From: Mike '/m' 


You would think that a company whose core competency is software
development, and who hires only the "best and the brightest",
would have gotten their software development process under better control
by now.

Therefore one can only assume that software development is not their core
competency.  That begs the question: what *is* Microsoft's core competency?
 Illegal monopoly maintenance?  Legal arguing?  Press manipulation?  Forced
extraction of $$ from end-users?  Kneecapping?

 /m


On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:17:47 -0500, "Robert G Lewis"
 wrote:

> Announced Nov 1983 delivered 1985 Some things never change 
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:0je2vusrnqbk8hssn4tkbm108vm8g7bl6g{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> OK, you got my curiosity going.  Compliments of google:
>>
>> "This article summarizes Microsoft's decades-long effort to evolve
>> Windows from a single, one-size-fits-all desktop operating system for
>> everyone into a robust family of server and desktop operating systems.
>> [looks like there is still lots more 'evolving' to do - ed]
>>
>> "On November 10, 1983, Microsoft announced Microsoft Windows, an
>> extension of the MS-DOSR operating system that would provide a
>> graphical operating environment for PC users. Microsoft called Windows
>> 1.0 a new software environment for developing and running applications
>> that use bitmap displays and mouse pointing devices. With Windows, the
>> graphical user interface (GUI) era at Microsoft had begun...."
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/winhistoryintro.mspx
>>
>>
>>
>>  /m
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:59:03 -0500, "Robert G Lewis"
>>  wrote:
>>
>> >Not a bad article. I don't know that I agree with the authors
view of the
>> >original vision . Also wasn't the FIRST version of Windows about 1985?
>OS2
>> >1987 ? Just a couple of Nits. I think the author could have gone into
>much
>> >greater detail.
>> >
>> >Bob Lewis
>> >
>> >"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
>> >news:3df0955a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >>
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=296
>> >>
>> >> A history of the PC industry told without the benefit of MS lies.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >
>>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4