Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Aug 2005 16:26 UTC
For as long as most technologists can remember, there has been Wintel, the $250 billion industry dominated by Microsoft's Windows operating systems and Intel's microprocessors. But Lintel, or the Linux operating system and Intel, is now encroaching on this empire, and behind it is the entire open-source software movement, which threatens to overthrow the Windows industry.
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Member since:LANs? Internet? Word Processors? Spreadsheets? 32-bit OS? GUI? Browsers? Databases?
I hope you are joking.
Microsoft did not invent the LAN, the Internet (Arpanet was around long before Microsoft existed), Word Processor, Spreadsheet (they bought Excel), 32-bit OS's, the web browser (Mosaic, Netcape, and lots of others), or databases.
I believe that that was the point of the original poster: Microsoft did not invented any of these things but most people here and everywhere act as if they did.
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2005-06-29
LANs? Internet? Word Processors? Spreadsheets? 32-bit OS? GUI? Browsers? Databases?
I hope you are joking.
Microsoft did not invent the LAN, the Internet (Arpanet was around long before Microsoft existed), Word Processor, Spreadsheet (they bought Excel), 32-bit OS's, the web browser (Mosaic, Netcape, and lots of others), or databases.