Yeah, yeah, I got a little excited thinking I made a first post on slashdot. My false start, my bad! Peace, love, and friendship my comrade, no need to call me a lamer!
Also, as has been pointed out in this thread, it doesn't seem that Microsoft goes out of its way to target niche areas the way Apple has, which is something I can't disagree with. I would like to point out, however, that just about every piece of software that has to do with the modern PC user: browser, chat, email, word processing -- has a Microsoft "solution." They've overwhelmingly succeeded in just about every one of those areas except for maybe chat, where AOL still reigns on high.
But hey, 3/4 (in this limited selection) isn't bad if you ask me...and I think a lot of people here would agree that this 'niche' area probably consumes over one-half of the time spent on a computer.
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This has become a very popular thing for developers to do nowadays...lost your will to innovate? Blame it on the other guy. What I don't understand is how this happens when it seems clear to me that people have learned to compete with Microsoft, arguably the most anti-competitive entity in the business, so why is it that they cannot compete with Apple, a company with significantly fewer software titles and an overwhelming demand for the portage of many common applications from the Win32 side of things?
Just my two cents.
I thought News was supposed to be exactly that: new. This is as timely as a Microsoft Security Update. This service was launched 5 days ago...not "today."
Hydra appears to have been developed by a group called "Global Software Engineering." Apple isn't taking credit for anything here, except for their idiot-proof implementation of zeroconf as Rendezvous, and their rapid development tools.
Can you name any modern computer company that INVENTED, not just built off of, any technology?
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Yeah, yeah, I got a little excited thinking I made a first post on slashdot. My false start, my bad! Peace, love, and friendship my comrade, no need to call me a lamer!
Also, as has been pointed out in this thread, it doesn't seem that Microsoft goes out of its way to target niche areas the way Apple has, which is something I can't disagree with. I would like to point out, however, that just about every piece of software that has to do with the modern PC user: browser, chat, email, word processing -- has a Microsoft "solution." They've overwhelmingly succeeded in just about every one of those areas except for maybe chat, where AOL still reigns on high.
But hey, 3/4 (in this limited selection) isn't bad if you ask me...and I think a lot of people here would agree that this 'niche' area probably consumes over one-half of the time spent on a computer.
Post #1! This has become a very popular thing for developers to do nowadays...lost your will to innovate? Blame it on the other guy. What I don't understand is how this happens when it seems clear to me that people have learned to compete with Microsoft, arguably the most anti-competitive entity in the business, so why is it that they cannot compete with Apple, a company with significantly fewer software titles and an overwhelming demand for the portage of many common applications from the Win32 side of things? Just my two cents.
I thought News was supposed to be exactly that: new. This is as timely as a Microsoft Security Update. This service was launched 5 days ago...not "today."
Hydra appears to have been developed by a group called "Global Software Engineering." Apple isn't taking credit for anything here, except for their idiot-proof implementation of zeroconf as Rendezvous, and their rapid development tools.
Can you name any modern computer company that INVENTED, not just built off of, any technology?
Depending on how you look at it, not many have.