[Gllug] Re: Gates to get Knighthood!!! (Andrew Halliwell)

[Doug Winter]

Jack Bertram wrote:
> Everything you say is true - but when the explosion in GUI use came
> about, it was Windows 3.0 and then Windows 95 that catalysed it, not
> Apple.  [1990 is spot on - that was the year Windows 3.0 was released,
> if I remember correctly.  I was still using WordPerfect 5.1 in those
> days...]

Did you ever use Windows 3.0?  I can't imagine that catalysing anything 
except a deep dislike for it :)

Microsoft basically produced a load of pants up till Windows 3.1 - that 
was the product that really made them, and at the time it was a useful 
bit of kit too, since it enabled people to use a word processor *and* 
receive their (internal, corporate) email.  Up till then there had been 
no need for multitasking, but the whole email thing suddenly meant 
everyone needed it.

Bit of a killer app at the time really.

Their leveraging of Windows into the office software market was a stroke 
of genius, as was his subsequent exploitation of his monopoly, but i'm 
not sure it deserves a knighthood on top of the oodles of cash they made 
too.

But then again, a reward based on a corrupt and offensive aristocratic 
notion of nobility is probably appropriate reward for bullying and theft :)

doug.




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