Trademark holder did a poor job researching his trademark and finds prior use in a domain name now attempts to abuse anti cyber squatting laws to grab domain. This is one of those areas of tech law that will need to be ironed out in the future perhaps adding a domain name check to the TM check when registering a trademark. I hope the law going forward dose not favor the trademark holder over prior use owner.
Slackware was published in Walnut Creek, California right next door to Concord. (I live in Concord, had a chance to visit Slackware HQ and never did) I think after WC CDrom shut down Slackware moved to Concord. That may be why it matters.
Also building code enforcement takes bribes so even a 4.0 might fuck some buildings up.
> Then there's the Single User aspect, all over again. No matter how they pass XP off as a multi-user environment, it carriest considerable baggage of being single user
Both computers at my home can be accessed from remote. The Linux box (mine) provides multi-user access. The Windows box (moms) permits me to take control of the computer it dose not permit me a second login.
This is fine as my moms computer is used as a single user environment. I log in to help her. My linux box however I run sevral projects on. I need to log in often more than once to try stuff out. Testing network apps for example.
It also helps that there aren't a bunch of people folowing up saying "but there could be". However the first MacOs virus was actually for the Atari ST when emulating the Mac hardware. Viruses don't target the largest userbase possable they target a platform the virus author dislikes.
There are also viruses for the Amiga and a number of obscure platforms nobody has ever heard of. However there aren't any viruses for the Commodore 64, Apple II or Atari 400/800.
Reason? Design. The C64 has no HD or better said the HDs were only used by 2% of the total users also you had to reboot between applications to clear out any remaining traces of the preveous application. Atari 400/800 typicly rebooted from ROM carts. The commertal Apple II applications used a specalised DOS for reading the disk to thwart copying. This means rebooting the computer between applicatiosn to clear the DOS out of memory and load a compleatly diffrent DOS.
Unix and OS/2 provide a layor of security that makes it difficult (nearly impossable) to make a virus that would actually work. Windows NT etc have this same feature but Microsoft chouse to disable it by default. Don't let users install new applications and even your Windows viruses will go away. Seem too simplistic? After all the same user (you) will be switching to admin to install apps. Yes but viruses install themselfs while your running the application as a user. They hop from app to app while your a normal user. Dosen't work if you disable your ability to install software from your primary account.
Linux? Yes Linux has this same feature but umm some of the new Linux distros suffer the same defect as Windows dose, In the "Superuser by default" way.
A decade ago it was Windows 95 that was going to be a big opportunity for Linux to make headway on the desktop,
Not even close. Windows 95 was Microsofts big chance to solidify it's hold on the market and brush aside all compeditors.
Linux however was only just then being used on a few low load servers and a few desktops.
When IE came out it was the death of Netscape. Linux didn't even have a TCPIP stack and couldn't actually go on the Internet.
Windows 98 was Windows 98. Linux advocates used it to raise awareness of Linux with much success. But awareness dose not mean converts.
Windows 2000 was Microsofts big chance to blow Linux off the face of the earth. They failed.
Windows XP was Microsoft ditching the old 9X codebase and going with NT. A win for Microsoft. DRM is DRM. It pisses people off. It's not anything to do with Linux other than DRM dosen't exist in Linux.
The licens of Ms SQL is a win for other SQL servers. The flaws in ASP security model... Thats server side and Microsoft as pritty much lost that market..Net and C# were threats to Linux. There was no way for Linux to Win on that.
I don't think this is a Win for Linux eather but your trying to say this is a clame that is made every time Microsoft farts. It's actually the first time someone sereous made this sort of clame and Linux advocates make a more limited version of this clame when they make it at all (this being rare).
However that being said we've had more than enough Microsoft and Linux death productions to realise this sort of thing is just hype.
It's about time Microsoft spent more time making Windows stable and less time adding features.
Right now Microsoft dosen't have to play 1 for 1 against Linux. Linux has to be 10 times better to win converts. The big issue for Windows users isn't features but stability. As Windows advocates like to say "If you can't use it it isn't useful" however how they come to conclude Linux isn't useful is obserd. It isn't obserd to clame it when Windows crashes more and more with each new version.
Apple advocates as of late appear to me to be turnning against Linux. For a while now I thought we could rely on Apple to take over the client side while Linux dominates the server side and together Linux and Apple can cut away at Microsofts marketshare. However Apple advocates appear to be taking pot shots at Linux instead of trying to win converts from Windows. At the same time I have a hard time getting people to sereously consider the Macintosh. Getting them to consider switching isn't anywhere near as difficult as getting them to switch to the Mac.
So Microsofts tast right now is to keep people from considering the switch. The biggest complaint is stability, not features.
When the RIAA was screaming fuzzy blue mud about P2P there wasn't much actual piracy going on. At least not as much as recordable media piracy. Tapes and CDrs were being past around by friends.
But the big threat was P2P. Years later P2P is now well out of hand. Pre-release versions of new TV shows and movies end up on P2P networks. Every soung you could ever want. Everything.
So now the RIAA wants to go after recordable media.
My recomendation is simple, Back up your computer to CDr.
A good idea reguardless of the situation but even more so right now. Security and reliability aside stuff happends to Linux boxes so back up everything to CDr. Macs are hardly perfict, back them up as well. I don't even need to tell you what happends to Windows... Back up and back up again.
Now back up all your CDs to MP3s.
But don't make CDrs of your music.
Of course don't buy music backed by the RIAA but you already knew that. Havn't done so for years. Howver it's worth a reminder.
I think he may have seen just one to many "Get IE" banners. You can dictate what web browser works from a personal website but a business page needs to worry about supporting the existing userbase.
However more and more users are switching to Firefox or Opra plus a large number of people use a cell phone or PDA to surf the web when away from the computer. Once they find your web page dosen't work for them you've lost them as a costummer. Even if they use IE most of the time they want access ALL the time not just MOST of the time.
If you stay away from Javascript and CSS your pritty much golden. However if you do use Javascript and CSS you have to be careful to only use the parts where Microsoft complys with the standards.
I want everyone to say this please. Once everyone hears this the typical life span will be expanded byond 1 thousand years and then medical science will dubble the maxamum life span once every 6 months.
640 years is more sentence than anyone ever needs.
Microsoft appears to have patented the generic MP3 menu on a portable MP3 player AFTER Apple did a public demo of the iPod.
However the iPod was not the first MP3 player. Preveous units used flash memory or CD for MP3 storage.
The Flash units suffered in size. The CD units had portability problems. Try iPod dancing with a flash or CD rom unit, The flash unit runs out of music quickly the CD unit skips a lot becouse of your movement.
However I don't remember of any hard disk MP3 players before the iPod.
The patent appears to target the iPod. Apple made a big deal of it's menuing system and ability to sort mp3s. So Microsoft runs out and patents it.
What Microsoft probably didn't quite get is that Apple can keep quiet. By the time Apple is hyping something it's a few months away unlike Microsoft who starts the hype before the first line of code hits the keyboard.
They did switch to Open Office to save money and if they actually did lose money they would have noticed it the first year. It's normal to re-evaluate software every year. They should have spotted the problem the first year. The fact that it took them 5 years to find a problem leaves me to doupt there ever was one.
The cost of maintainning two diffrent software pacages (Open Office and Microsoft Office) is unfortunatly going to show up every time someone trys a diffrent product and somebody will use that as a reason to dump the alternet product when dumping the Microsoft brand product would have the same effect plus a net cost savings.
.Com - Commertal.Net - Internet related. Maybe an ISP or other BUSINESS related....Org - A non-proffit... Oh wait Not Fedex related and yadda yadda... wow your not getting a break.tv - Obveously a TV show about the subject. Money. Umm yeah.Biz - Horray it's.. oh right nevermind.Web - Umm kinda like.Net.cc - Generic enough but so is.Com and here they clame it's obveous he has a commertal intent. Most of the.cc domains are just companys duping to make sure nobody domain squats. Not exactly a leap of logic to say.cc is the new dot com
The grandparents poor choice of title... Sounds like he is saying Bill Gates should give more money. In reality what Bill Gates should give isn't money at all. However I've known for quite some time Mr Gates was a dedicated spam hunter (it's the only time I've ever agreed with him). He could have stuffed that money in his pocket but he didn't and thats nice of him. He is getting rid of the net scum with cash.
But it dose look like he is buying good will. However he can't actually buy good will. He has to earn it. The laundry list is long and we/.ers know it by heart so I'm done...
This will result in every operating system that handles daylight savings needing an update. However some will be screwed (Sorry 95/98 users) becouse they are no longer supported.
Microsoft can't get any more marketshare. Apple owns the computer graphics world and Linux owns the servers.
On the Desktop the alternitive to Windows is (in this order) Linux then MacOs. MacOs is prefered but people don't want to buy a new system. Apple could be selling them for $5 and people would still call it "too expensive" becouse of the $5,000 they already invested into a PC.
At the office the alternitive to Windows is (in this order) MacOs then Linux. In this case they don't see the vast amounts of free software and so they don't see the software they need. Most of MacOs apps are commertal and thusly in sight of the manager who desides what platform to use.
In graphics it's MacOs, The alternitives being high end Unix boxes, SGI and SUN. Less and less so over time.
In servers it's Linux. The alternitives being BSD, and Solarus. In that order.
BSD when the workload overwhems the Linux box. Solarus when you absolutly MUST have the highest preformence (and pay through the sphinter for it).
MacOs X can do the job it's just not popularly known for it.
Lindows, Frys sells them. They are amazingly easy to use. Very powerful and for a yearly fee you get all the software you want installed for you via remote. Updates also provided automaticly for the same yearly fee and tech support and well everything you'll ever want.
Account? Your root, don't need annother account.
The Zaurus PDA is the same way. Just install open Zaurus and you'll have accounts.
Being accurate Xerox refined the GUI idea. They did not invent the idea. TI created an AI computer using Unix for the OS and a GUI for the user interface. To make it work TI invented "Plug and Play" and Apple liccensed it (making a very big deal about TIs efforts, not clamming any credit)
Microsoft not only copied "Plug and play" they did a very bad job of it.
Linux is overrated: Mac and Windows fans still are not willing to accept that the GUI dose in fact get in the way. Linux is that whole "Operating system your way" you don't pick out "The Linux distro" you find one that is entirely tweeked for you. Some (or maybe most) linux fans lose track of this and we get distro wars. It's no secret Taco likes Debian, I like Slackware, Knoppix is populare for Linux advocates etc. Your making tradeoffs and well.. How many fast food places get away with having a creepy Mascot? "Have it your way" burger king. That is also the real reason Microsoft is so hated. Oh come on Linux makes major blunders, IBM screws up, Apple is no saint and Sun Microsystems was known for it's occasional laps of sanity. We forgive them all. Becouse I can switch to BSD, Sun users can ditch solarus for Linux (if needed) Apple users have options. But Windows is the ball and chain, you MUST use it and you must live with it. You didn't have a choice. Choice is god, We all want choices. We all want options. We all want freedom. That is over rated as far as anyone who supports Microsoft is conserned.
Microsoft is far byond anyone else: Microsoft Windows started off so far behind the tech curve they might as well have admitted they'd never catch up. Amiga was far and byond Microsoft Windows. As an operating system Windows only recently passed up Amiga with Windows XP. Thats pritty good for a long dead platform. Geoworks had Windows 95 beat and was introduced when Windows 2.x was on the market.
Apple would have been far byond Microsoft Windows but instead of working on new technologys Apple spent it's time answering all the nitpicks of the computer user base. Apple didn't know that all thies nitpicks were not from the users themselfs but actually talking points from Microsoft and did not represent the wishes of the typical user. As a result Apple went around fixing things that didn't need repair instead of actually improving the operating system and hardware. Other companys who were not so nieve ignored thies talking points and as a direct result left the market (the REAL reason Microsoft published those complaints).
While Microsoft pulls ahead not by supereor R&D but by slowing down (or crushing) everyone else it should be admitted Microsoft IS very much ahead of it's time. That I don't mean they are creating wonderful things before anyone else could but they do things before the technology is ready or capable of handling it. Usually there is a right way and a wrong way to do something but when a technology is just too early there is only the wrong way. At that point three operating systems will jump at it and do it the wrong way. Linux will do it with a temporary hack or kludge untill there is a right way. Mac Os offers hardware upgrades making the right way a reality. Microsoft Windows includes the wrong way in the operating system and leaves it that way long after a right way is commen practace.
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Trademark holder did a poor job researching his trademark and finds prior use in a domain name now attempts to abuse anti cyber squatting laws to grab domain.
This is one of those areas of tech law that will need to be ironed out in the future perhaps adding a domain name check to the TM check when registering a trademark.
I hope the law going forward dose not favor the trademark holder over prior use owner.
Slackware was published in Walnut Creek, California right next door to Concord. (I live in Concord, had a chance to visit Slackware HQ and never did)
I think after WC CDrom shut down Slackware moved to Concord.
That may be why it matters.
Also building code enforcement takes bribes so even a 4.0 might fuck some buildings up.
Awesome I'm new to /. maybe you could explain things to me.
Or better said
I'm 4 years old and what is this?
> Then there's the Single User aspect, all over again. No matter how they pass XP off as a multi-user environment, it carriest considerable baggage of being single user
Both computers at my home can be accessed from remote.
The Linux box (mine) provides multi-user access.
The Windows box (moms) permits me to take control of the computer it dose not permit me a second login.
This is fine as my moms computer is used as a single user environment. I log in to help her.
My linux box however I run sevral projects on. I need to log in often more than once to try stuff out. Testing network apps for example.
It also helps that there aren't a bunch of people folowing up saying "but there could be".
However the first MacOs virus was actually for the Atari ST when emulating the Mac hardware.
Viruses don't target the largest userbase possable they target a platform the virus author dislikes.
There are also viruses for the Amiga and a number of obscure platforms nobody has ever heard of.
However there aren't any viruses for the Commodore 64, Apple II or Atari 400/800.
Reason? Design. The C64 has no HD or better said the HDs were only used by 2% of the total users also you had to reboot between applications to clear out any remaining traces of the preveous application.
Atari 400/800 typicly rebooted from ROM carts.
The commertal Apple II applications used a specalised DOS for reading the disk to thwart copying. This means rebooting the computer between applicatiosn to clear the DOS out of memory and load a compleatly diffrent DOS.
Unix and OS/2 provide a layor of security that makes it difficult (nearly impossable) to make a virus that would actually work.
Windows NT etc have this same feature but Microsoft chouse to disable it by default.
Don't let users install new applications and even your Windows viruses will go away.
Seem too simplistic? After all the same user (you) will be switching to admin to install apps.
Yes but viruses install themselfs while your running the application as a user. They hop from app to app while your a normal user. Dosen't work if you disable your ability to install software from your primary account.
Linux? Yes Linux has this same feature but umm some of the new Linux distros suffer the same defect as Windows dose, In the "Superuser by default" way.
A decade ago it was Windows 95 that was going to be a big opportunity for Linux to make headway on the desktop,
... Thats server side and Microsoft as pritty much lost that market. .Net and C# were threats to Linux. There was no way for Linux to Win on that.
Not even close.
Windows 95 was Microsofts big chance to solidify it's hold on the market and brush aside all compeditors.
Linux however was only just then being used on a few low load servers and a few desktops.
When IE came out it was the death of Netscape. Linux didn't even have a TCPIP stack and couldn't actually go on the Internet.
Windows 98 was Windows 98. Linux advocates used it to raise awareness of Linux with much success.
But awareness dose not mean converts.
Windows 2000 was Microsofts big chance to blow Linux off the face of the earth. They failed.
Windows XP was Microsoft ditching the old 9X codebase and going with NT. A win for Microsoft.
DRM is DRM. It pisses people off. It's not anything to do with Linux other than DRM dosen't exist in Linux.
The licens of Ms SQL is a win for other SQL servers.
The flaws in ASP security model
I don't think this is a Win for Linux eather but your trying to say this is a clame that is made every time Microsoft farts. It's actually the first time someone sereous made this sort of clame and Linux advocates make a more limited version of this clame when they make it at all (this being rare).
However that being said we've had more than enough Microsoft and Linux death productions to realise this sort of thing is just hype.
Yep. Back then Linux wasn't even a player in the field.
OS/2 Warp, Windows 95, MacOs, NeXT and Sun Microsystems were the players in the market.
It was Warp vs 95 back then.
It's about time Microsoft spent more time making Windows stable and less time adding features.
Right now Microsoft dosen't have to play 1 for 1 against Linux. Linux has to be 10 times better to win converts.
The big issue for Windows users isn't features but stability.
As Windows advocates like to say "If you can't use it it isn't useful" however how they come to conclude Linux isn't useful is obserd.
It isn't obserd to clame it when Windows crashes more and more with each new version.
Apple advocates as of late appear to me to be turnning against Linux.
For a while now I thought we could rely on Apple to take over the client side while Linux dominates the server side and together Linux and Apple can cut away at Microsofts marketshare.
However Apple advocates appear to be taking pot shots at Linux instead of trying to win converts from Windows.
At the same time I have a hard time getting people to sereously consider the Macintosh.
Getting them to consider switching isn't anywhere near as difficult as getting them to switch to the Mac.
So Microsofts tast right now is to keep people from considering the switch.
The biggest complaint is stability, not features.
Nope sorry NY Times. Microsofts the villen of the people who are getting a bigger paycheck becouse of Google.
Google is the hero.
The price is $20.12
And the osmotic pusle resnence needed to make a star drive work is 2012.
Banning a number is bad for lots of things.
A new pirate simulation called "2010 peaces of gold" to hit the market 2008.
Suggested retail price is $20.10.
Published by Gold Standard software.
PS. No such game exists.
All the good files are on Taliban servers.
When the RIAA was screaming fuzzy blue mud about P2P there wasn't much actual piracy going on.
At least not as much as recordable media piracy. Tapes and CDrs were being past around by friends.
But the big threat was P2P.
Years later P2P is now well out of hand.
Pre-release versions of new TV shows and movies end up on P2P networks. Every soung you could ever want. Everything.
So now the RIAA wants to go after recordable media.
My recomendation is simple,
Back up your computer to CDr.
A good idea reguardless of the situation but even more so right now.
Security and reliability aside stuff happends to Linux boxes so back up everything to CDr.
Macs are hardly perfict, back them up as well.
I don't even need to tell you what happends to Windows... Back up and back up again.
Now back up all your CDs to MP3s.
But don't make CDrs of your music.
Of course don't buy music backed by the RIAA but you already knew that. Havn't done so for years. Howver it's worth a reminder.
I think he may have seen just one to many "Get IE" banners.
You can dictate what web browser works from a personal website but a business page needs to worry about supporting the existing userbase.
However more and more users are switching to Firefox or Opra plus a large number of people use a cell phone or PDA to surf the web when away from the computer.
Once they find your web page dosen't work for them you've lost them as a costummer. Even if they use IE most of the time they want access ALL the time not just MOST of the time.
If you stay away from Javascript and CSS your pritty much golden.
However if you do use Javascript and CSS you have to be careful to only use the parts where Microsoft complys with the standards.
I want everyone to say this please.
Once everyone hears this the typical life span will be expanded byond 1 thousand years and then medical science will dubble the maxamum life span once every 6 months.
640 years is more sentence than anyone ever needs.
Microsoft appears to have patented the generic MP3 menu on a portable MP3 player AFTER Apple did a public demo of the iPod.
However the iPod was not the first MP3 player.
Preveous units used flash memory or CD for MP3 storage.
The Flash units suffered in size. The CD units had portability problems.
Try iPod dancing with a flash or CD rom unit, The flash unit runs out of music quickly the CD unit skips a lot becouse of your movement.
However I don't remember of any hard disk MP3 players before the iPod.
The patent appears to target the iPod. Apple made a big deal of it's menuing system and ability to sort mp3s. So Microsoft runs out and patents it.
What Microsoft probably didn't quite get is that Apple can keep quiet. By the time Apple is hyping something it's a few months away unlike Microsoft who starts the hype before the first line of code hits the keyboard.
They did switch to Open Office to save money and if they actually did lose money they would have noticed it the first year.
It's normal to re-evaluate software every year. They should have spotted the problem the first year.
The fact that it took them 5 years to find a problem leaves me to doupt there ever was one.
The cost of maintainning two diffrent software pacages (Open Office and Microsoft Office) is unfortunatly going to show up every time someone trys a diffrent product and somebody will use that as a reason to dump the alternet product when dumping the Microsoft brand product would have the same effect plus a net cost savings.
.Com - Commertal .Net - Internet related. Maybe an ISP or other BUSINESS related... .Org - A non-proffit... Oh wait Not Fedex related and yadda yadda... wow your not getting a break .tv - Obveously a TV show about the subject. Money. Umm yeah .Biz - Horray it's.. oh right nevermind .Web - Umm kinda like .Net .cc - Generic enough but so is .Com and here they clame it's obveous he has a commertal intent. .cc domains are just companys duping to make sure nobody domain squats. Not exactly a leap of logic to say .cc is the new dot com
...
Most of the
Ummm yeah
It's a Microsoft Lawyer.
I'm supprised he got away with ONLY one million.
The grandparents poor choice of title...
/.ers know it by heart so I'm done ...
Sounds like he is saying Bill Gates should give more money.
In reality what Bill Gates should give isn't money at all. However I've known for quite some time Mr Gates was a dedicated spam hunter (it's the only time I've ever agreed with him).
He could have stuffed that money in his pocket but he didn't and thats nice of him. He is getting rid of the net scum with cash.
But it dose look like he is buying good will.
However he can't actually buy good will. He has to earn it.
The laundry list is long and we
This will result in every operating system that handles daylight savings needing an update.
However some will be screwed (Sorry 95/98 users) becouse they are no longer supported.
Microsoft can't get any more marketshare.
Apple owns the computer graphics world and Linux owns the servers.
On the Desktop the alternitive to Windows is (in this order) Linux then MacOs. MacOs is prefered but people don't want to buy a new system. Apple could be selling them for $5 and people would still call it "too expensive" becouse of the $5,000 they already invested into a PC.
At the office the alternitive to Windows is (in this order) MacOs then Linux. In this case they don't see the vast amounts of free software and so they don't see the software they need.
Most of MacOs apps are commertal and thusly in sight of the manager who desides what platform to use.
In graphics it's MacOs, The alternitives being high end Unix boxes, SGI and SUN.
Less and less so over time.
In servers it's Linux. The alternitives being BSD, and Solarus. In that order.
BSD when the workload overwhems the Linux box.
Solarus when you absolutly MUST have the highest preformence (and pay through the sphinter for it).
MacOs X can do the job it's just not popularly known for it.
Lindows,
Frys sells them.
They are amazingly easy to use. Very powerful and for a yearly fee you get all the software you want installed for you via remote. Updates also provided automaticly for the same yearly fee and tech support and well everything you'll ever want.
Account?
Your root, don't need annother account.
The Zaurus PDA is the same way. Just install open Zaurus and you'll have accounts.
Did they develop the GUI?
No Xerox did. And no Apple didn't develop it.
Being accurate Xerox refined the GUI idea. They did not invent the idea.
TI created an AI computer using Unix for the OS and a GUI for the user interface.
To make it work TI invented "Plug and Play" and Apple liccensed it (making a very big deal about TIs efforts, not clamming any credit)
Microsoft not only copied "Plug and play" they did a very bad job of it.
Did they develop Desktop Publishing Software?
No
Xerox did.
Linux is overrated: Mac and Windows fans still are not willing to accept that the GUI dose in fact get in the way.
Linux is that whole "Operating system your way" you don't pick out "The Linux distro" you find one that is entirely tweeked for you.
Some (or maybe most) linux fans lose track of this and we get distro wars.
It's no secret Taco likes Debian, I like Slackware, Knoppix is populare for Linux advocates etc.
Your making tradeoffs and well.. How many fast food places get away with having a creepy Mascot? "Have it your way" burger king.
That is also the real reason Microsoft is so hated.
Oh come on Linux makes major blunders, IBM screws up, Apple is no saint and Sun Microsystems was known for it's occasional laps of sanity.
We forgive them all. Becouse I can switch to BSD, Sun users can ditch solarus for Linux (if needed) Apple users have options. But Windows is the ball and chain, you MUST use it and you must live with it. You didn't have a choice.
Choice is god, We all want choices. We all want options. We all want freedom.
That is over rated as far as anyone who supports Microsoft is conserned.
Microsoft is far byond anyone else:
Microsoft Windows started off so far behind the tech curve they might as well have admitted they'd never catch up.
Amiga was far and byond Microsoft Windows. As an operating system Windows only recently passed up Amiga with Windows XP. Thats pritty good for a long dead platform.
Geoworks had Windows 95 beat and was introduced when Windows 2.x was on the market.
Apple would have been far byond Microsoft Windows but instead of working on new technologys Apple spent it's time answering all the nitpicks of the computer user base. Apple didn't know that all thies nitpicks were not from the users themselfs but actually talking points from Microsoft and did not represent the wishes of the typical user.
As a result Apple went around fixing things that didn't need repair instead of actually improving the operating system and hardware.
Other companys who were not so nieve ignored thies talking points and as a direct result left the market (the REAL reason Microsoft published those complaints).
While Microsoft pulls ahead not by supereor R&D but by slowing down (or crushing) everyone else it should be admitted Microsoft IS very much ahead of it's time. That I don't mean they are creating wonderful things before anyone else could but they do things before the technology is ready or capable of handling it.
Usually there is a right way and a wrong way to do something but when a technology is just too early there is only the wrong way.
At that point three operating systems will jump at it and do it the wrong way.
Linux will do it with a temporary hack or kludge untill there is a right way. Mac Os offers hardware upgrades making the right way a reality.
Microsoft Windows includes the wrong way in the operating system and leaves it that way long after a right way is commen practace.