[Cialug] Windows Vista Preview

[Chris Hilton]

They can't because they don't have a thousand (or so), of their best, 
developers working on bringing in new developers and enchanting the ones who 
are already there.
Microsoft exists for developers, and Microsoft remains because of the programs 
those developers have written (stupidly enough in a non-portable Microsoftian 
way).


Anyway, the article seemed like it was written by a snarling Machead too 
obsessed with his own platform to realize that doing things right the same 
way isn't just "copying," but it's doing things right the same way ;).
If Microsoft were truly copying Apple they'd dump .Net, stick with c++ for 5 
more years, drop most of their libraries including directX, stop working on 
compatibility to keep their customers (developers) from having to re-release, 
and start spending all their time on end-user programs and interfacing.
In reality their smartest people are working on things like:  .Net, 
Singularity, NT Kernel, WPF (arguably copying Apple, but also going farther 
than Apple plans).

I really don't think Microsoft is copying Apple just because they copy a few 
superficial features.  Who doesn't do that?


If I seem annoyed it's because I really hate defending Microsoft.  Not that 
what I've said here really paints them as anything but vile, deceptive, and 
two-faced but in a much different (much smarter) way than some people seem to 
realize.

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 13:02, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> If only Apple could steal the developers, developers, developers from MS.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Wilson [mailto:tim_linux at wilson-home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:57 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Windows Vista Preview
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> Microsoft copy from Apple?  That's unheard of! :-)
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