re challenge to microsoft supporters in article news duke edu kdb teer acpub duke edu kurt bollacker writes rick schaut richs microsoft com wrote in article news duke edu kdb sunbar mc duke edu kurt bollacker writes i agree no one ever definitively met my challenge only batted around semantics oh well i guess things did turn out as i expected hmmm i gave two examples which matched your objective criteria and your response was some subjective claptrap about them being lame you never did counter the fact that those examples fit your objective criteria i repeat what are they you mentioned what you tried to present as innovative but what new concept was brought to market an efficient basic basic existed before and efficiency is not original either ole what new concept does that bring document oriented computing the mac had that before msw you simply haven t made your point the burden of proof is upon you my exact challenge what new computing concept has ms brought to market first nothing more nothing less explain how your examples fit that criterion hmm has anyone of us computer geeks me included ever consider that inovation is not limited to software hardware true ms products do not boast features that ms invented but how many products out there by other vendors out there are truely innovative in their continuing development i think what makes ms special to the public is thier innovative pricing it is true the xwindows mac next all have some feature s in thier gui that are better than ms but people like me can t afford them it is true that apple has lower their pricing on the low end models but they are just that low end system is a better operating system but the machines they operate on just are too expensive for my tastes a unix platform is powerful enuf but tell the common user to set up xdefault i am still confused on what some of them things do and they either puke or faint if u think about it low prices aint innovative if u come down to it but for the product it offers and on the lower cost and powerful hardware that it runs on as compare to macs ms is kinda innovative oh yea i guess the fact that the support products and applications they have garnered for mswindows does make them kinda innovative too dixon d ly dly joule elee calpoly edu dly oboe calpoly edu electrical and electronic engineering cal poly slo
