On 2018-11-07 11:33 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Wolf K
wrote:

microsoft windows was mostly a copy of classic mac os,

IOW, mac os was really DOS? There's something wrong with your memory of
those far off days. Or else your confusing the user interface with the
OS. mac OS

i didn't say macos was dos. i said microsoft copied macos to create
windows.

Nah, they both copied Xerox. And it was the GUI they copied, not the OS.

not quite. apple and xerox had a financial agreement allowing for apple
to use xerox's ideas and build upon them.

apple added significant ideas from what xerox had. classic mac os was
*not* a direct copy, and the difference between them is significant.

I agree here. If anything, the Lisa operating system was closer to what
Xerox had and the first Mac OS had already significantly built upon that.

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That was his innovation. [1] Technologically, Apple
innovated hardly at all.

that part is absolutely false.

Ever since, Apple's competitors tried to catch up, and have succeeded in
doing so.

it took a decade for microsoft to catch up with windows 95.

currently, apple's competitors are again trying to catch up, microsoft
in particular. windows phone was a complete failure and surface is
trying to copy the ipad and not doing very well at it.

I agree that on the tablet scene, Windows is a complete joke. However,
Windows Phone was quite good and I miss it terribly every day.
Unfortunately, an update to Windows 10 Mobile caused the in-call mic to
stop working and since it wasn't clear whether it was a hardware issue
or a software issue (I'm banking on the latter even though a number of
people said it was a hardware problem), I was forced to move away from
the platform. Third-party applications were lacking and therefore caused
it to be ignored but on its own, it was pretty damned good.

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