Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 18:57 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
"I was thinking about all the cool stuff Google has done when I realized that none of it was original. The folks at Microsoft, long known for being copycats, must be furious, since nobody has ever accused Google of the same thing. Everything Google has done has been derivative. The search engine was taken from the AltaVista idea of huge computer farms. Gmail is a clone of Hotmail. The Google Chat is nothing special. Orkut is a copy of Friendster. Even the invention of ads targeted to search requests is derivative of the old GoTo.com search engine.
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2005-07-06
Google never claims to invent a tech that already existed. They never claimed to invent searching, they claimed to invent a better page ranking system.
Microsoft on the otherhand acts and claims new additions as if they never existed before.
Prediction:
Amigas only have one-way DataTypes, it's DataTypes could only convert files to Amiga's native formats, they could not convert back when you saved a file. IE GIF -> IFF but no IFF -> GIF.
BeOS has two-way DataTypes so you can both read and save in any DataType supported. However, there is a lack of user control on which DataTypes act on which files. I mention this because there clearly is still room for improvement.
As far as I know then is nothing like DataTypes in the present WindowOSs. Microsoft however with the WinFS to help could add DataTypes in it's OS, it could even improve DataTypes like I mention by giving the user control over the DataType code that is presently missing from the Amiga and BeOS.
Question: Will Microsoft claim to have developed an improved DataType that is clearly better than what has previously existed or will they claim to have invented a whole new function/feature for their OS and act like it never existed before?
I predict #2 based on thier past actions.