MICROSOFT VS APPLE

Wow... I LOVE IT..but again it looks like they swiped the interface/GUI **DIRECTLY** from Apple.. have you seen the new iPhone interface on working with photos, etc?? Exact same ;-)
Mark Cira (email)

Hi again, Mark!
Nothing new here, Microsoft Engineers are known in the trade as Copy Engineers, (check out this funny video) letting innovation float around like trial balloons and then gleaning and repackaging all within their operating system. Has worked since their inception. Excell was robbed from Visicalc, Windows from the original Mac OS, etc..etc...In court they argued that Mac had taken all from the Xerox experiment of the late seventies and they won...but then at that time Jobs absolutely needed the Microsoft Office Suite for Macs and Bill Gates obliged...and lent 11$B to Apple. Problem is with this kind of horse trading is that the times, they are a-changing fast. Consider:

MS has more and more problems keeping its devils at bay, too much overly complex in-your-face settings with cascading windows ad infinitum while MACS keep the creator protected from too much technical bla-bla, still the most user-friendly computer in the world by a mile. This show of respect for the user is about to pay off big time.

Because MS has created an army of malevolent hackers with nothing more to do it seems than to bring it down. An unending stream of patches flies back and forth between the millions of PCs and MS, some of them more dangerous that the foe they are trying to defeat. Meanwhile APPLE has chosen the UNIX language, the sunniest and most robust language ever devised for computers, and OPENED IT, creating an army of friends.

Apple has also cleared the two biggest stumbling block to its inroad into mass computer markets: it ditched Motorola to use the ubiquitous INTEL chipset, making its OS able to deal with ALL software for the PC with just minor adjustments ( for GUI and COM protocols within). And then by adding the Dual-core to the mix while having a much shorter pipelining, this guarantees that their iMAC at 2,8mHz is actually faster than a PC at 4mHz in most operations (Photoshop, 3D rendering etc...).

To make matters worse for PC's, a generation of iPOD users are now going into the Apple stores that just a few years ago where deemed by the same crowd as a refuge for elitist faggots. And once there, they are discovering that the machines actually look incredible, do everything and are well worth the extra cost, saving thousands of hours in your life (this happens to be true...and documented!). Nothing comes close to the new iMacs for class and efficiency.

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

The latest quaterly report blew right past analysts that have been riding PC's to wrok all those years. No the stunning increase in APPLE profits did not really come from the new iPhone...but hold on to your motherboard, from a 30% increase in computer sales. Could we say that persistence in good design and care eventually pays off even though the risks and tasks are enormous? PC's have feets of clay as more and more software is migrating to servers (GOOGLE will soon have everything, including a better Powerpoint...free). The size of MS makes it capable of taking a lot of abuse, like GE or GM, and maybe Apple will never get more than a 20% market share, but who cares? My point is that if you have enough money to use a recent high-end Mac and all related software and peripherals like iPhone, then do it with the same gusto as you would race your Porsche engine in front of a GM dealership pushing the latest gaudy Saturn convertible under a row of balloons.

Check out another one of these small labs risking life and limb developping stuff that Microsoft will soon plunder:

And the, the final word to Bill Gates, a very honest man....and generous (unlike Steve Jobs!). I'd love comments on this last statement.