Microsoft Doors

[viking60]

Some have had their say about Microsoft Windows. But now Microsoft is tired of copying Apple and Linux so they have come up with a totally new concept:

Do you think it will be successful? Microsoft claims that it will be bigger than Windows......
And it is time to give MS some credit: Who can blame Steve Balmer for saying that Linux is communism after having had a look at these Linux guys;

Opps! Sorry this is Microsoft a la 1973

[rolf]

So, the story I read, when Gates was sharing programming knowledge with his hippy friends in Silicon Valley, where I grew up, they were all about open sourcing the code amongst themselves. Billy came forward with the idea of making it proprietary, he insisted that others should be made to pay for it to use it. Makes sense, in a certain light. Maybe not so honorable when the whole genesis of his philosophy is taken into account. Another story, this one a documentary on the Public Broadcasting System, told of two Stanford graduate students, married, who developed some software of interest to Microsoft. According to the documentary, they were led to believe they had a fair deal with Redmond but wound up losing all their work without compensation to the company started by the man who thought his work should come with a price to others. A Microsoft VP was quoted as saying, "What would you expect?", when asked how this betrayal could come about. From humble beginnings, great treachery is born.

[viking60]

Not Groovy man! Microsoft like did not even develop MS-DOS. They bought it from a nerd (for 50$?). Then they had a business meeting:

I feel some psychedelic music coming up:

[rolf]

Good one. Carrey is something else!