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The sad fact is nick.. microsoft doesnt innovate it hasnt come up with any good idea it just buys out companies that do have these good ideas and claims it as its own work. thats the truth..

yeah my last two "innovations" were not brilliant.. but talking about winfs their "new" filesystem ill think it will turn out to be reiser4 even eugenia mentioned this a while back.. its the way it looks to me.

if u call frontpage an innovation i have to laugh sorry that is the single most crappiest wysiwyg out there.. macromedia have been releasing anything decent on this front.

the fact of the matter is even though microsoft did manage to get computers so widely used.. if they hadnt done it some one else would have it was just a matter of time.. but what they provided was by no means brilliant they provided a hacked up operating system.. with serious instability but just were able to market the shit as something new and brilliant.. woe the pains with windows 95 infact i liked 3.11 more. (i was a young kid then)

I will give them one thing they have one of the best marketing and business brains out their working for em.. that their is no doubt of.. how else can u market complete crap and make so much money out of it.

also to comment on your thing about standards.. thats the exact thing people sit long and hard with many different companies and come up with set standards to keep interopability between different vendors, what happens ? microsoft does their damndest to make it not work.. java is a good example of this.. sun creates java to be platform independant ms create their own virtual standard machine and start shipping it which happens to only work on windows.. sun get pissed off and sue em.. what do they do in response ? ahh fuck it well create our new and innovative development platform ".net" should be .bollocks.. im just wondering what microsoft will do when mono actually picks up and starts being used within linux.. i wonder what their response will be.

the fact is it will never replace java development platform as its not platform independant.. how big will the uptake of this new development platform ? it maybe huge.. but i doubt it.. every company is looking for platform independance and microsoft needs vendor lock in, to maintain the monopoly.