For all those who dont know much about the internet, or its origins. before Itunes, windows media player, VLC we had this player called realplayer.. it was pretty nifty and I think almost everyone who had an ISDN(64K+) line or above, had one. they pretty much killed realmedia.
Netscape is basically what you see as firefox, its a old old old grandmother to the current browser, and honestly was very good. Netscapes best browser however was their gold version, something which they charged for. m$ didnt for explorer and bundled it with windows, suffice to say we know the rest.
The xbox was sortof born out of the dreamcast( well sega sought MS's help to build windows CE for it) and seganet ultimately formed the backbone for xbox LIVE.
Heck, even the zune player..the first one was nothing more than a rebranded toshiba gigabeat player.
SO.. we are pretty clear on MS's ability to screw the competition or copy them..
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
owner of : atari 2600, commodore 64, NES,gameboy,atari lynx, genesis, saturn,neogeo,DC,PS2,GC,X360, Wii
5 THINGS I'd like to see before i knock out:
a. a AAA 3D sonic title
b. a nintendo developed game that has a "M rating"
c. redesgined PS controller
d. SEGA back in the console business
e. M$ out of the OS business
