Understanding Microsoft

[NJ5]

MrMafoo said:

Sony and Apple like to innovate. They like to push the envelope of industry. Because of them, we have CD’s, DVD’s, HDTV, Mice, Bit mapped displays, Portable Music, The world wide web (NextStep gets a little credit there, and Apple now owns them).

The computer mouse was invented by a Stanford researcher and first used commercially by Xerox.

Computer raster graphics were first used by Xerox, I believe.

Also, was HDTV really invented by Sony? Never heard of that.

The world wide web was invented by Tim Berners Lee, who implemented the first browser and server in a NeXT computer. Not much contribution from NextStep or Apple there... I wrote this post using Firefox running on Windows Vista. Because of Mozilla and Microsoft, this post exists.

MrMafoo said:

Just ask yourself what would generate the largest profit with the best chance of success, and that’s the direction they will take.

Well well, isn't that easy to say ;)