Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 16:56 UTC, submitted by Governa
eWeek's Peter Coffee has compiled his idea of the 25 killer applications of all time. "Microsoft's Vista has widely inspired the 'Why do I need that?' question, which past 'killer applications' have answered in different ways for different platforms during three decades of personal computing."
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I think you could say that Apple started a PC revolution, but with the Apple II. The Mac arrived on the scene when the CLI PC revolution was already over, and reignited it for a whole segment of the population for whom typing cryptic characters into a command line was scary and unnatural. Then Windows came along ended that revolution.
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2005-07-02
Oh, I disagree that the Mac started the PC revolution...the Mac started the GUI revolution, for sure, but the IBM PC is what started the PC revolution - which is why, incidentally, it's called the PC revolution!
(Historical note from an old fart: before the PC, people talked of Personal Computers as "microcomputers", as opposed to "minicomputers", which were as big as a desk, and "computers", which took over spaceships and killed their crews while en route to Jupiter.)
As for Windows' market share...could we please not bring numbers into this, and just say that Windows is on the "vast majority" of PCs? I just don't want anyone to start bandying web stats around again.
Edited 2006-12-16 18:33