Tuesday, 7 August 2007

Microsoft - apparently not the innovator we thought it was...

This rather long, and rather angry sounding (!) article by F.W. van Wensveen argues that Microsoft has not actually innovated anything since its foundation in 1975. We all know the story of the design for the Windows GUI being "nicked" from Apple, but the article argues that precisely nothing has been innovated by the mega-corp since its inception. If you have a spare few minutes (read: half hour !) it makes some interesting points about Microsoft's products over the years...

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