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Can They Do Anything On Their Own?

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NESnerd:
I'm kind of new to the I hate Microsoft world, I suppose. I'm even kind of writing an essay, for my friends, about it. I was just wondering, have they come up with anything on their own? We have Windows, which was based off UNIX. IIS is there wanna-be Apache. They're crappy serverside language ASP, is just complete shit made to compete with PHP. Not to mention all the other shit they put out. Have they came up with anything on their own? It seems strange how much one company can suck so much.

 
quote:Anything Microsoft can do OSS has done and has done better.
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[ January 19, 2002: Message edited by: NESnerd ]

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by NESnerd:
We have Windows, which was based off UNIX.
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I will agree with all of your post except the above line. If they based Windows off UNIX they missed the boat *completely*. Linux on the other hand is based of UNIX (minix). Saying Windows is based off UNIX is like saying a moped was based off the Ferrari.

NESnerd:
Well, yeah. I mean, UNIX was one of the first OS's out. Windows doesn't look the same or operate the same, but uhm...they're both operating systems. :-D My main point is everything they have made, there's already something like, and Microsoft's version usually just sucks. Like, UNIX based OS's are good, while Windows sucks.

voidmain:
Just as a side history lesson: DOS was derived from CPM. I'm old enough to have had a taste of CPM and they aren't good memories. Microsoft "bought" the marketing rights to SS-DOS (Seattle Software's DOS) in 1980.  MS built on that until we have the rats nets we know today as Windows.  Of course most of the features in Windows were the result of buying out 3rd party vendors who developed the products MS could not.  And their Internet Exploder was based on NCSA Mosaic which was free and open source.

Calum:
Well we could fill gigabytes up with what they didn'tdevelop themselves, but what did they bring to the market themselves? The only thing i can think of is BASIC. Wasn't it a Microsoft language? Is it based on DOS commands though? I don't know. It must have been pretty basic though because as program languages go, it seems that many, including BASIC (which had to be altered dependant on which hardware and software you had!) floundered and died while C evolved and adapted. I may be conversing through my behind here though, i was only a nipper at the time after all...

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