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Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'
BobJacobsen writes "CBSnews.com has an article about Bill Gates and Steve Balmer answering questions at the 'All Things Digital' conference. When asked about 'high points' in his time at Microsoft, Gates replied 'Windows 95 was a nice milestone.' The article continues 'He also spoke highly of Microsoft SharePoint Server software, but didn't mention Vista.' Was there really nothing else that Gates considered a high point?"
His big fat pay cheques and becomming one of the wealthiest men in the world? That's not a highpoint?
I agree with Gates, Win95 was as good as Windows got.
What a load of crap. I absolutely detest working on Windoze, and ME was a poorly repackaged disaster, XP still has issues and the Vista fiasco has been well documented.That said, 98 was better than Win95.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
You'll note that Apple's bar at the top doesn't show you a list of open windows (or programs or anything). Until Mac OS X added a new "bar" (at the bottom, you'll also note) you weren't given any indication of what was open.
I hate Microsoft as much as anybody here, and I think they stole from the MacOS, but I also happen to believe that "great artists steal", so to speak (please don't construe this as calling MS "great"). I don't care if stuff was stolen, I care about the end result. And Microsoft added some improvements - though the MacOS was still better overall at that time.
Apple, for absolutely no fucking reason, won't let you navigate many things with the keyboard in their OS that Windows will. Apple makes something wonderful and then restricts you from using it in any way other than that which they imagine to be the most "natural" way. They're a prime example of placing philosophy over reality (idealism over materialism, in philosophical terms).
Microsoft sucked at it, but their goal of usefulness for an interface over perfecting the "humanity" of it pushed them ahead.
Property is theft.
Your crap got old the first time anyone suggested it.
Just who the fuck do you think you are - anonymous coward - to tell people how to express their views?
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Like I said, KDE did things better. Any modern Linux distribution is better for me and 99% of all users.
One of the main reasons Linux is better is the choice it gives. Windows users don't really have a choice about which version they use. Hardware and non free software vendors move on and old versions of Windows are left stranded. I might be able to run Win95 in a virtual machine but what would I run on it, Office95? What printers could I use? I have not used Windows at home for years and I have not missed anything. Free software users have dozens of good choices for everything they want to do with their computer.