reply to MACST3R
yes MACST3R this is a country of freedom where everyone can do whatever they damn well please, including steal major ideas from a competitor which is what microcrap did with apple they saw the os, they stole the ideas, and tried to make something of it, yes gates is a marketing genius, which is the only reason why he has become so successful, even with windoze being as crappy as it is popular. I used to use windows as a power user, and i dealt with crashes, formatting, and all that other crap, on my ibook, it will occasionally crash from IE or netscape, but thats the only reason. My pc is a game and music devoted machine right now, which is all pcs are good for anyway. Lets take a look shall we at the history, Apple creates the macintosh, gates competes by BUYING DOS and lying all the way through with IBM that they had it. Next 16 bit windows, crap! incredibly difficult to use. next a bloated 32 bit version called 95 with a task bar and icons on the right hand side, looks familiar. This was the next logical step, then came 98 and 98SE, now with a program called 98lite you could remove the core integration of IE with the os. integration in the first place was a stupid move, gee yeah lets make our shell, which is what windows is, its not an OS, lets make our GUI shell run on top of dos, which they bought, then lets integrate the incredible instability of the internet with it and make everyone crash at least once a day. then ME just a bloated revision of 98 which took forever to load, and still had a basic version of dos underlying it. during this time they had windows nt and 2000 out, which were much more stable but not good for home users. so they merge the 2 and come out with xp, fisher price crappy interface. dos is gone anything doslike you see is the BIOS which is designed to look like dos, however now they emulate dos through XP hence the stability of the OS because XP is actually an OS based on a decent kernel. so now windows is at the point where apple was with their first os, because its their first actual OS. and the underlying portion of this whole thing is that he outright stole the idea, the design, and maybe even some code directly from Apple OS. meanwhile Apple had been inspired by Xerox's division who came up with a GUI originally, but the mac os is more than a gui, its a complete OS whose interface is a GUI and its gonna take 10 years for windoze to get where os X.1 is today. And if their not carefull they may be defunct by their own errors or pulled apart by the courts, because its a frickin monopoly which is illegal, and the money he earned, was from lying, cheating, and stealing, along with marketing. So I wonder , how much is that money worth now, how well does he sleep at night knowing exactly what he's done.
