• Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Microsoft has rarely innovated themselves…

    Edit: I just remembered that even Windows was externally acquired, so I believe, it would be more correct to say that Microsoft has basically never innovated something themselves.

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      1 year ago

      I think Windows was built in house but on top of DOS which Bill Gates bought off someone

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it started its life as “Quick And Dirty Operating System” (don’t know, why they renamed it) and even that was basically a ripoff of CP/M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

        I guess, you can say that they did put in own effort into developing the windowing system. I wouldn’t want to call that “innovating”, since they were late to the party, but I guess, that would be moving the goal posts here…