[geeks] Subject: Re: Microsoft Surface...

[Doug McLaren]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 08:51:57PM -0700, William Kirkland wrote:

| Microsoft products are crap, because Microsoft imposes limitations  
| used to ensure that their products are not compatible with similar  
| products.  Microsoft has not provided innovation, only marketing.
| 
| ... so yes, Apple who does innovation is received with awe and wonder.

Wow.  Those are some remarkably broad brushes you're painting
Microsoft and Apple with.

Microsoft has done some pretty remarkable things over the years.  And
so has Apple.  And both have done some pretty underwhelming things
over the years as well.

As for Microsoft deliberately making their products aren't compatible
with competitor's products, that's really only true for a small subset
of their rather large product lines -- and I'm not even sure it's
really been *proven* rather than just theorized anyways.

For example, this Microsoft optical mouse I'm using rocks.  And it was
only like $15.  Which products did they go out of their way to make it
not work with?  Not sure -- the same model certainly works fine on my
Mac.

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Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzied.us     Life - Sexually transmitted, always fatal