Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu alt.fan.bill-gates:372 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:7345 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:10128Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.miscPath: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!uknet!pipex!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!dhhalden.no!pc134.dhhalden.no!thomasezFrom: thomasez@dhhalden.no (THOMAS LUNDQUIST)Subject: Re: Challenge to Microsoft supporters.Message-ID: <thomasez.150.736202571@dhhalden.no>Lines: 43Sender: news@dhhalden.no (Network News User)Nntp-Posting-Host: pc134Organization: Ostfold CollegeReferences: <14112@news.duke.edu>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 20:42:52 GMTIn article <14112@news.duke.edu> kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu.mc.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker) writes:>From: kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu.mc.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker)>Subject: Challenge to Microsoft supporters.>Date: 30 Apr 93 14:58:54 GMT>Microsoft is the largest software company on the planet, yet I cannot think>of even *ONE* computing concept that they innovated and brought to market>before anyone else.  Xerox-PARC/Apple, Osborne, NeXT, GNU and others have >been pioneers and led the way to the future of computing.  What has>microsoft done to be a technological leader?  I posted this question before,>but I got nary a reply.  I make the challenge now to anyone who can come up>with something-especially Microsoft employees.  I get no response this time,>I guess it pretty much assures me that there is none--which is what I>suspect anyway.>>######################################################################>Kurt D. Bollacker			Duke University Medical Center>kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu				      Durham, NC 27710>######################################################################- They invented the "how to make money on others ideas".- They made money.- They weren't in the air at the wrong time...Admit it BillG is a damn smart guy. How many out there can make money on almost useless products...Useless even if you look at the time Dos were written..it stinked already then..If I could choose one marketing guy in the world, I think I would choose him. He's so good that almost everyone hates him, but they still use his stuff... ThomasEZ.               ' I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for you. '***************************************************************************** * ShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesSha * * veTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveT ** heWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveBillGatesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheW ** halesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhal ** esShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesShaveTheWhalesS ******************************************************************************