Is it just me or is Vista looking a lot like a Mac?

[Justin]

What about UNIX?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

 

[CptDondo]

??? Which was that? What was it called?

XENIX.... Forgot all about that one.... But it was never an 'official'
version; there is no such thing. Most likely because at the time MS was
not even on my horizon.... I was working with Ultrix and other forms of
"real" unix.....

--Yan

 

[Guest]

Xenix was a licensed version of AT&T Unix. In a Unix reunification project
(there has been many of these - expect someome to try to unify mac, linux
and various other unixs one day) MS gave up Xenix (as they had altered it
from Unix) and wrote the intel port of the unified Unix for AT&T.

MS didn't start using their own software till Windows NT which Vista is
version 6.

All MS software gets virus checked on Unix machines (hoping a virus can't
run on Windows and Unix).

 

[Guest]

Dos was their second OS.
Xenix was an OEM product only. no retail.

 

[Adam Albright]

Xenix was a licensed version of AT&T Unix. In a Unix reunification project
(there has been many of these - expect someome to try to unify mac, linux
and various other unixs one day) MS gave up Xenix (as they had altered it
from Unix) and wrote the intel port of the unified Unix for AT&T.

You know fate is funny. Few people know that UNIX, probably one of, if
not the most powerful operating systems ever conceived was developed
originally by Bell Labs, a division of AT&T (the old original Ma Bell)
as just another reseach project or that two of its research scientists
won the Nobel Prize for the invention of transistor, if I remember
right back in 1957, the bedrock that CPU chips and modern electronics
are based on.

If only... THEY, (AT&T) not some smartass Steve Jobs of Apple shame
who's all about greed or freckled faced control freak Billy Gates a
natural born daydreamer would at best just be also rans.

Too bad AT&T didn't stay the course and go on to give personal
computers to the masses maybe through a partnership with some giant
like General Electric, RCA or Sony, things would probably be radically
different then they turned out and way better.

Then again you wonder too why IBM never flexed its considerable muscle
and dominiate the market like they easily could have or HP or Kodak or
any one of at least a dozen other major corporations. We the consumers
got screwed big time with two upstart companies named Apple and
Microsoft. Too bad. Too bad indeed.

Most probably didn't know either that a bunch of old farts on the
Board of Directors over at Xerox way back in the 70's didn't "get"
what possible use a GUI demonstrated by their in house engineers would
be or the value of a little funny looking device called a "mouse" so
they said sure you can just give it to Steve Jobs. Of course then
Gates got a eary demo from his buddy Steve-O of the first Apple and
that's how we got stuck with Windows. Oh well...

 

[CZ]

Then again you wonder too why IBM never flexed its considerable muscle
and dominate the market like they easily could have

IBM tried:
In hardware it was called PS2 and had proprietary architecture (MCA).
In software OS2 was developed jointly with MS. IIRC, IBM wanted to keep the
op system at 16 bits to protect their other products, and MS wanted to go 32
bits. They split and MS got the 32 bit code.
Dave Culter (?) was the project manager for the NT program.