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RE: Had Microsoft Never Been
If Microsoft hadn't come to be, one possible outcome would be that we'd simply have bowed to a different software master. Maybe OS/2?
I think the more likely outcome of a non-Microsoft world would be that computers would have become a lot more like cars.
I completely disagree with this conjecture. I believe that the converse is true. The industry has become a lot like your average car lot...lots of options , no real innovation. I think Apple's was the most successful architecture to rival the CISC processor of IBM...(RISC)
If there was no Microsoft the idea of "standardization" would be a much more fluid concept to the industry...the challenge Microsoft faces is that that their ability to innovate has been stifled by their need to meet their enormous overhead and remain backwards compatible...I don't believe that this should have been a problem the computer industry should have faced. I envision a market saturated with a variety of computer architectures and interfaces to chose from...not the way it is currently...hmmm...do I want an AMD or a Pentium...a mac or ummm maybe a PC...dual core or...yawn....quad core...sigh...whatever's cheapest...now for the OS...Windows 2000,ME(God forbid),XP,Vista...bah! all the same...oh well...whatever it comes with I'll use...what a boring life we have!
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