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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Doug McLaren <dougmc at frenzied.us>
>Date: 2007/06/02 Sat PM 11:42:27 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Subject: Re:  Microsoft Surface...

>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.

"DOS ain't done 'till Lotus won't run!" [0]

Lionel

[0] http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done_t.html